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I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect. -- Ava Gardner
Delightful as teenage witch-in-training Sabrina. -- Melissa Joan Hart
Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows. -- Agatha Christie
Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect. -- Ava Gardner
Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art. -- Lynn Coady
The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility. -- Glen Duncan
Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, An Nature, in her cultivated trim Dress'ed to his taste, inviting him abroad - Can he want occupation who has these? -- William Cowper
Delicious foods are drugs that will inflame the gut and rot the bones, but there is no harm if one eats moderately. Delightful things are all purveyors of destruction and decadence, but there is no regret if one enjoys them moderately. -- Zicheng Hong
The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect. -- Ava Gardner
It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely. -- Cole Porter
How delightful to find a friend in everyone. -- Joseph Brodsky
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. -- Herodotus
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful. -- Helen Keller
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation. -- Mason Cooley
When you start recognising that you're having fun, life can be delightful. -- Jane Birkin
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. -- Albert Einstein
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. -- Edgar Degas
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. -- John Barrymore
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. -- Georges Bataille
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
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. -- Helen Wills Moody
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. -- Oscar Wilde
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
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. -- James Beattie
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast. -- Robert Morgan
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. -- Margaret Mead
We want to do a lot of stuff; we're not in great shape. We didn't get a good night's sleep. We're a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup. -- Jerry Seinfeld
A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves. -- Gary Zukav
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. -- Robert Hall
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. -- Saint Bernard
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. -- Maria Semple
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. -- Louisa May Alcott
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. -- Claire Tomalin
I like pineapple. It's delightful. -- Sarah Drew
Beauty is a delightful prejudice. -- Theocritus
Novelty is both delightful and deceptive. -- Honore de Balzac
The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety. -- Publilius Syrus
It is delightful to play the fool. -- Horace
The world is crammed with delightful things -- Virginia Woolf
What a delightful thing this perspective is! -- Paolo Uccello
The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful. -- Bertrand Russell
Life is most delightful on the downward slope. -- Seneca the Younger
What makes us human is what is delightful -- Genevieve Bell
There is no place more delightful than home. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly. -- Charles Keating
Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice. -- Antoine Rivarol
Death is God's delightful way of giving us life. -- Oswald Chambers
War is delightful for those who don't know it -- Desiderius Erasmus
Never less than bizarrely delightful. The monster is mesmerizing. -- Ty Burr
Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary. -- Tim Gunn
It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it? -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance. -- Bertrand Russell
I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing. -- Vincent Van Gogh
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful -- Samuel Johnson
Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth. -- Anthony de Mello
There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful. -- Samuel Johnson
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. -- Oscar Wilde
The world's as ugly as sin, And almost as delightful. -- Frederick Locker-Lampson
To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult. -- A. C. Bradley
My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable. -- Kevin Spacey
There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule. -- Elizabeth Goudge
The Perfect Gentlemen are perfectly delightful, musically superb and thoroughly entertaining. -- David Zippel
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. -- Doug Larson
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. -- Emily Dickinson
All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lying is a delightful thing for it leads to the truth. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is always a delightful sense of movement, vibration and life. -- Theodore Robinson
It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short. -- Jane Austen
The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex. -- David James Duncan
Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful. -- Epictetus
Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world. -- Ada Leverson
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful. -- Publilius Syrus
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. -- Lord Byron
But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens. -- David Brin
All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful. -- Octave Chanute
The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth. -- Maxwell Maltz
A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take. -- Moses ibn Ezra
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live. -- Barry Humphries
No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted. -- Michel de Montaigne
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. -- Joseph Addison
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows. -- Edward Young
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed. -- Seneca the Younger
Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame -- Torquato Tasso
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. -- C. S. Lewis
It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation. -- Anthony Holden
November at its best - with a sort of delightful menace in the air. -- Anne Bosworth Greene
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. -- W. E. Johns
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon. -- Galileo Galilei
If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes. -- Horace
The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth. -- Thomas de Quincey
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss. -- Edmund Spenser
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. -- John Milton
A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. -- Joseph Addison
One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory. -- Zhou Enlai
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once. -- Seneca the Younger
The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true. -- Edmund Snow Carpenter
When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations. -- Mary Shelley
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue. -- Anatole France
Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be. -- Stella Gibbons
My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children. -- Toni Morrison
To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it. -- Julian Fellowes
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers. -- Marjorie Hillis
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast? -- Nash Buckingham
If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around. -- William McDonough
There is no more delightful hour in life than that of an unconfessed but mutual love. -- Eliza Lynn Linton
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful. -- George Bernard Shaw
We earnestly recommend young men to read what has been to ourselves a truly delightful work. -- Dean Alford
It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality. -- Albert Einstein
Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful. -- Rose Macaulay

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