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• Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Truth

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• Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, People, Literature

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.197

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• What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

  Edgar Degas

  Understanding, Charming, Conversation

  Edgar Degas (1948). “Letters”

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• I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.

  Billy Connolly

  Children, Japan, Comedy

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• I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little.

  Billy Connolly

  Thinking, People, Citizens

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• I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

  Lord Byron

  Sensual, Acting, Actors

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• How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Friendship, People, Delight

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• I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

  Jaron Lanier

  Way, Certain

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• Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Death, Night

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• At my 30th birthday party, one of my best friends gave a toast and said I'd been waiting for that day since I was 13. Everyone laughed, but he was right! Life continues to get more fun, more surprising, more delightful.

  Siobhan-Marie O'Connor

  Fun, Party, Waiting

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• What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?

  William Cowper

  Anniversary, Wife, Friendship Love

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.162

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• Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

  Loretta Young

  Teens, Enthusiasm, Habit

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• Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant "satisfaction to the thought." This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.

  William Hazlitt

  Mean, Passion, Writing

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Lectures on the English Poets”, p.9

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• I didn't ask you to catch me!" "You're so delightful when you're irrational. Of course I'm going to catch you." He slid a hand behind her nape and kissed her again. "It's what I do.

  Shana Abe

  Hands, Irrational, Catch Me

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• Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized and can only attract their like. How I would like to lead you to brave, stalwart friends who would protect you and play games with dice and teach you delightful songs that have no sad endings. If you would only leave cages locked and turn away from unloved Wyverns, you could stay Heartless.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Love, Song, Lonely

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.124, Macmillan

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• Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

  Rollo May

  Lines, May, Poet

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Tragedy, Bores

  'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 3

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• I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.

  David Walliams

  Fans, Mets, Very Happy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

  James Taylor

  Guitar, Mouths, Coming Out

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Selfish, People, Wish

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.285, University of Chicago Press

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• At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

  John Donne

  Greatness, Men, World

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• Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

  Horace

  Latin, Play, Fool

  "The Works of Horace: With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory".

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• Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Beautiful, God

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• Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Beautiful, Girl

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