“And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.” PeopleWayAmericaPrejudiceMeetingsDelightfulDelightful Things Book:Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews Source: Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews
“Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.” OrderPrejudiceBoundariesDelightfulAlas Author:Sir Fulke Greville
“It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.” YearsWellsSpaceOpinionPeriodsHundredYears AgoPrejudiceMereCeaseImpressionSpotsAestheticVehicleDelightfulVoyagesTouristsVisitingRough Times Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925 Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925
“I find her [Frances Trollope] simply delightful, even in her prejudices and cantankerousness. It is a gift to an author to find a funny, wry, perceptive contemporary observer to whom the subject matter seems almost as different and alien, and requiring as much struggling to understand, as it did to me.” DifferentMatterSeemsStruggleSubjectsPrejudiceContemporaryAliensFranceDelightfulObserversSubject MatterWry Author:Charles R. Morris
“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.” PeopleIfsWorldCommonAttitudeMoralAirExpressionPersonalityPrejudiceAbsurdInterfereCharmingDelightful Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.” WorldLettersPrejudiceSilentPrivilegeFavorsTyrannyKingdomsGloriousSolitaryCheatPlatoDelightfulRecommendationsShort Lived Author:Francis Quarles