delightful quotes

This pretty ring† I will give it to the first man who tells me he would like to be a woman. It is delightful to be a woman; but every man thanks the Lord devoutly that he isn't one.

-Iron
  The Story of an African Farm, ch.17,'Lyndall'.

He has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

- Rev Sydney Smith
Of Lord Macaulay. Quoted in Lady Holland Memoir (1855), vol.1. ch.11.

When will the world know that peace and propagation are the two most delightful things in it?

- Horace, 4th Earl of Orford Walpole
  Letter to Sir Horace Mann,7 Jul. In The Correspondence of HoraceWalpole (Yale edition,1937^8).

: I suppose society is wonderfully delightful! :To be in it is merelya bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
GERALDLORD ILLINGWORTH1893  AWoman of No Importance, act 3.