Delightful Quotes:

We earnestly recommend young men to read what has been to ourselves a truly delightful work.

- Dean Alford

topic: Men, Young, Delightful

One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.

- Zhou Enlai

topic: Memories, Historical, Delightful, Delightful Things

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

- Jaron Lanier

topic: Way, Certain, Delightful

You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.

- Pema Chodron

source: Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

topic: Inner Strength, Difficult, Delightful

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

source: Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more”, p.22, e-artnow

topic: Imagination, Green Gables, Delightful, L'm Montgomery

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

- Publilius Syrus

topic: Pleasure, Delightful, Variety

All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Luck, Threshold, Delightful, Pauses

To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

topic: Youth, Young, Delightful, Be Young

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Children, People, Delightful

War is delightful for those who don't know it

- Desiderius Erasmus

topic: Military, War, Delightful

The world is crammed with delightful things

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.66, Virginia Woolf

topic: World, Delightful, Delightful Things

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Country, Opposites, Delightful

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

- Julian Fellowes

topic: Surprise, Delightful

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Novelty, Deceptive, Delightful

If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.

- Horace

topic: Life, Delightful, Jokes

Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.

- Epictetus

source: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.192, Enhanced Media Publishing

topic: Delightful, Delightful Things, Dues

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Aging, Life Is, Delightful, Slopes

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Reading, Beneficial, Delightful

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.919, BookBaby

topic: Perfect, Too Short, Delightful

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

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

topic: Tragedy, Bores, Delightful