Delightful Quotes

“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

“The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value of "Rosebuds" of Citizen Kane or "Madeleine cookies" of Marcel Proust or "Strawberry fields" of the Beatles. People regularly walk down the memory lane of their early youth. The paper boats of their childhood are recurrently floating on the waves of their mind and bring back the mood and the spirit of the early days. They enable us to retreat from the trivial, daily worries and can generate delightful bliss and true joy in a sometimes frantic and chaotic life. ("Paper boats forever" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Let it shine, the light in you.
Oh, and that's delighting me!
Various colors shining through.
Elated, it fills my soul with ecstasy.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“Delight is indeed born in the heart. It sometimes also depends on its surroundings.”
― Amy E. Reichert, The Coincidence of Coconut Cake

“Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.”
― Richard de Bury, The Love of Books: The Philobiblion of Richard de Bury

“Cleanliness is a habit that keeps the body, mind, and environment neat, clean, and delightful and free from dirt and toxic things.”
― Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

“I don't wish to argue,
whether the glass is
half empty or half full,
as long as what it holds,
is pure and delightful.”
― Akash Mandal

“Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Happiness is a delightful heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.”
― Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe

“The present moment is the only one that matters, and what you are doing right now is as delightful as anything else.”
― Victor Shamas

“Tulsi, beyond any perceivable clouds of skepticism, was the best living form of beauty known—the matchless delight, the most generous blessing granted to a human eyeball.”
― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

“You've met our guards." He gestured at the silent cylindrical guide. "The secret warriors: the binja.”
― China Miéville, Un Lun Dun

“Touch her and I will shred you to scraps and then burn what remains of you until the fat bubbles out.

Well, that really painted a picture. Delightful, Raolcan. You should be a poet in your spare time.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, First Flight

“I shall find you delightful; I think you're enchanting just as you are.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Then it hasn't been love," said May Bartram.
"Well, I at least thought it was. I took it for that--I've taken it till now. It was agreeable, it was delightful, it was miserable," he explained.”
― Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle

“So today I'm recalling the utility, the need, of my own essayettes to emerge from such dailiness, and in that way to be a practice of witnessing one's delight, of being in and with one's delight, daily, which actually requires vigilance. It also requires faith that delight will be with you daily, that you needn't hoard it. No scarcity of delight.”
― Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

“He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest.
Eleanor hadn’t written him a letter, it was a postcard.
Just three words long.”
― Rainbow Rowell Eleanor and Park

“We should live deeply and with delight for those who were cheated of life's gift.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“The delight of the spirit leads to life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counterintuitive theories ever recorded in the annals of science: quantum physics. Listen to those who have spent their lives immersed in this world and you will have a sense of the challenge we face. After making his groundbreaking discoveries in quantum physics, Werner Heisenberg recalled, "I repeated to myself again and again the question: Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?" Einstein declared after one discovery, "If it is correct it signifies the end of science." Schrödinger was so shocked by the implications of what he'd cooked up that he admitted, "I do not like it and I am sorry I had anything to do with it." Nevertheless, quantum physics is now one of the most powerful and well-tested pieces of science on the books. Nothing has come close to pushing it off its pedestal as one of the great scientific achievements of the last century. So there is nothing to do but to dive headfirst into this uncertain world. Feynman has some good advice for me as I embark on my quest: "I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' because you will get 'down the drain,' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.”
― Marcus du Sautoy, The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

“Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.”
― Elizabeth Wein, The Pearl Thief

“We used to say, we’re no beauties, because it was impossible to tell the truth. In bed, we were beauties. We were goddesses. We were the little girls we’d never been: loved, saucy, delighted, and delightful.”
― Amy Bloom, White Houses

“Brand new short story writer from Ireland who will become the next “breakthrough” writer. He has all the hallmarks of a wizard storyteller and this book is up there with the very best newcomers”
― Darren Moore, Five Incredible Short Stories

“Delightfully Imaginative, Heartfelt Tale *****

I love that it's a deliciously vivid collection of enchanting stories that gives stepmothers a modern interpretation. I bought it as a gift for a friend who wanted something to read to her kids. But I can also see it as a fun book for adults to curl up with in some corner, in a comfy chair, just for themselves.”
― Anonymous

“Dreaming is a delightful adventure.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I was no longer missing a piece. Jesus had taken all my insufficiencies, washed them away, and filled the very core of my being with His approval. Just like the day that He had given me a clean slate and released me from jail, now He was doing that same thing internally. He was washing away the belief that I was an inadequate failure who was unworthy and incapable of ever changing. He was making me into a new creation and it was going to be a thoroughly delightful process.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“I’m happy again, since you are by my side,
I’m always with you, even if it’s just in my mind;
I’ve decided that I’m destined for you,
while you are a delightful dream come true,
a dream from which no waking I require,
nothing else my days to tire;
raptured, with you, I’d live, in my dream,
since there you are real, a dream that’s agleam…
I’ll go to sleep now, so with you I’ll seem.”
― Will Advise, На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...

“Being with Jacks was strange in the same delightful way it's strange to experience a warm day in the middle of winter or to find a surprise meteor shower upon looking up at the sky.

(Indigo Exclusive Edition Alternate Ending).”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love