Delightful Quotations

I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.

One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

There is always a delightful sense of movement, vibration and life.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.

Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard.

I loved being in the room with Mamet as a director - he is the most generous, funny, delightful person to work for every day.

When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.

Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

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

I've taken classes most of my life, and it's no secret among my friends I want to be in a movie about dance. Maybe 'Step Up 2,' with the delightful Channing Tatum.

Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.

Hardcovers will never completely disappear. They are delightful to hold; they feel weighty and substantial. But my anecdotal evidence suggests that the world is changing.

On bikeback, there is a delightful sense of self-direction and autonomy. Lately, I have taken to cycling slowly, more fun than the fast, competitive commuter cycling I used to do. No longer do I jump lights or attempt that irritating wobbling thing that semi-professional cyclists like to indulge in.

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

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

I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.

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

She is pretty healthy for her age; she doesn't have anything major. She uses a walker by herself. She reads the paper from her hometown. She can really be a delightful person to be around.

Nature has spread for us a rich and delightful banquet. Shall we turn from it? ... We are still in Eden.

One thing that's really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people writing me with things that crack me up.

One of the most delightful parts of being a writer is connecting with people via social media. I devote ten minutes out of every writing hour to Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and other sites. I don't use assistants for that. It's me and all of my friends, fans, readers, and colleagues on the crazyboat.

I am honored. The opportunity to serve the listeners of KDNK again is a dream come true for me. I look forward to moving into the future with the dynamic volunteers and the delightful staff at our community access radio station. And I can't wait to get on the air!

He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful

He came on Saturday. Saturday evening there was the Town Ball. Frau Schwarz gave me a box, so I absolutely had to go after I had accepted. Well, I spent a few wonderfully delightful hours with him until 12 o'clock and then with his permission I spent two hours at the ball.

I think we were agreed that he has already entered the canon of modern American drama among the immortals, along with Eugene O' Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller. It's just delightful that he would even consider accepting our offer because his stature is so unique in world literature.

It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.

The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It seemed as if anyone could do better than I did. In every part I was worse than in the one before, and even my mother admitted that it would be a mercy if gestures could be dispensed with entirely.

England was a delightful and stimulating place for a young academic, although by present standards, the laboratory facilities were primitive. There were almost no research grants and no secretarial assistance, even for Sherrington.

Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my brother Charlie and I all worked for him, and he treated us just beautifully, almost like a father. When I went with my mother up to his office, he was always gentlemanly and kindly. He was sort of a quiet person.

The things kids can do on screens can be really delightful - if they are age appropriate. But no, they shouldn't spend all their time on a screen; they should split up their time doing multiple, different things.

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, to teach the young idea how to shoot

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, to teach the young idea how to shoot

You meet some delightful people. They are broad in terms of backgrounds and interests. We always have something to talk about.

This is delightful news. We now have moderate Republicans leading in the Senate and the House. That really vastly improves the chances we're going to get it in the final legislation.

They were just delightful people, and we spent some time with them the next day, ... We just started talking about wouldnt it be fun if they came up to Wisconsin this summer.

There was nothing beyond that question and a very delightful lunch.

This is the greatest afternoon or evening of family entertainment in the community all year, bar none. Anyone ? ages 6 to 86 ? will have a delightful time.

They're absolutely delightful to the senses and very smooth. We hope everyone will stop in and warm up with these flavorful beverages.

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.

I wanted to use an urban setting with a small-town feel for a story that took a character through her childhood into her adulthood, with a background in arson investigation, ... I chose Baltimore and its delightful Little Italy section and was able to depict that neighborhood feel, the family ties, and I hope a good story about why choices made define who we are and who we become.

The van Gogh sleuthing is a delightful piece of detective work and certainly entirely reasonable as far as I can tell,

They are just so delightful every one of them and even though they are twins they all have their own unique personalities.

As a 10-year-old, she was a delightful little child, and it was all these things that happened to her that eventually became her unwinding.

I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly.

I must admit I was hesitant. What I found disarming is they were delightful people, very respectful of me and my music. They decided to start paying me artist royalties, which they weren't contractually obligated to do. They recognized that I created all this music, and it was a huge asset for them.

Clayton was such a warm, delightful person. He was a coach to be sure, but he was also a real educator. He could talk your ear off on a lot of subjects, not just football.

He's one of those colorful, delightful characters you meet a half dozen times in life. He's especially good with children, capturing their imaginations with stories, and that's just in the planetarium. Get him outside with the stars and he captures children and adults. We just hope he sticks with it.

Because of double hip replacements, I don't play regular golf, but we do lots of putting with delightful people. It's most enjoyable.

Gestures, lines, soft loops and gentle slashed dance around, in and out of the painted surfaces with delightful assurance and bravado.

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

If I err in my belief that the souls of men are immortal, I err gladly, and do not wish to lose so delightful an error

I am on day-one of my journey of what's going to happen to 'Avenue Q' next. I know, like the show, it will be delightful and surprise people." ()

Carol is a fun-loving person with a delightful sense of humor. Everyone enjoys her as a member of the FAI family. Her work is an inspiration to her students and always beautiful and clever with its originality.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

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

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

There is no place more delightful than home.

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.

Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

The kids are a delightful group to spend time with. They enjoy each other's company and they represent themselves, their school and their community well.

The Husband Lord is delightful and forever young, night and day, He embellishes His bride.

The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.

There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.

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

The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.

The world is crammed with delightful things

What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as much as you please

To me it seems that youth is like spring, an over-praised season delightful if it happens to be a favored one, but in practice very rarely favored and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes

Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

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

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