Quotes of Delightful - somelinesforyou

“ Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. ”

- Bible

“ Sweets to the sweet; farewell! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, without the sweet concurrence of the heart. ”

- Robert Herrick

“ She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable. ”

- Unknown

“ Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day. ”

- Phil Jackson

“ We like winning. We've tried both and winning is better. ”

- Lane Kirkland

“ It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people. ”

- E. B. White

“ The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here. ”

- Finley Peter Dunne

“ The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet. - King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.). ”

- Venus Williams

“ A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent. ”

- Loretta Young

“ I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too. ”

- Alicia Silverstone

“ My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying… ”

- Helen Hayes

“ Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful — just as one is angrier for being told one is angry. ”

- Katherine F. Gerould

“ For me, the most enjoyable thing out of winning is seeing people that invest with you, all the time and the resources that they put with us, then to see them win and be that happy, get a chance to celebrate, it's really a thrill for me. ”

- Joe Gibbs

“ There's no question that curiosity is kind of key to the human experience, so it's also kind of adorable embodying curiosity in this little monkey. I'm not sure what breed George is, but he sure is cute. ”

- Ron Howard

“ The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful. ”

- Frederick Locker Lampson

“ He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. ”

- Sydney Smith

“ Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage — it can be delightful. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. ”

- George Eliot

“ Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. ”

- Edna Ferber

“ There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. ”

- John Barrymore

“ War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. ”

- Desiderius Erasmus

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

- Seneca

“ Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming. ”

- Quintilian

“ The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ”

- Bill Cosby

“ Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are delightful… Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. ”

- Mark Twain
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