Quotes About Happiness

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Know your own happiness.

It's such a happiness when good people get together.

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

I will only add, God bless you.

that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.