Delightful Quotes
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Delight Quotes
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful
Samuel Johnson
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Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein
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[on Betsy Drake] Betsy was a delightful comedienne, but I don`t think Hollywood was ever really her milieu. She wanted to help humanity, to help others help themselves.
Cary Grant
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[1997] I`m starting to feel I have to cure my addiction to Hollywood money, because while it`s delightful, it`s also insidious.
Alec Baldwin
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[On her work with William Powell] "I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and above all, a true gentleman."
Myrna Loy
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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
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[on Douglas Sirk] He was delightful and ambitious and so well-informed.
Edward Horton
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When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
Leonard Maltin
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it`s charming.
Edgar Degas
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To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
Alisha Marquette
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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 lang...
Kim Hunter
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She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
Alex Rozanski
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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Georges Bataille
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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Apichart Sankary
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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
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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.
Alfred Goldman
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My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
Andrew McCormick
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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
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It`s delightful, it`s delicious, it`s de-lovely.
Cole Porter
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It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
Anthony Holden
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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
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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
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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
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I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly.
Charles Keating
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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
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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
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I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.
Anita Loos
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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
Joseph Brodsky
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Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
Amos Oz
