Quotes About Happiness

Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

But don't you think one can be happy when on is married? Perfectly happy. But the happiness of a married man, my dear Gerald, depends on the people he has not married. But if one is in love? One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.

LORD ILLINGWORTH. As George Harford I had everything I wanted. Now I have merely everything that other people want, which isn't nearly so pleasant.

Who are you? he said. I am the Happy Prince. Why are you weeping then? asked the swallow; you have quite drenched me.

I never saw sad men who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue We prisoners called the sky, And at every happy cloud that passed In such strange freedom by.

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.

Con libertad, libros, flores y la luna, ¿quién no puede ser feliz?

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

Debe la alegría vestirse con lo que fabrico el Dolor?

The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

Every day. I couldn't be happy if I didn't see him every day. He is absolutely necessary to me.

Then I must learn how to be happy.  Once I knew it, or thought I knew it, by instinct.  It was always springtime once in my heart.  My temperament was akin to joy.  I filled my life to the very brim with pleasure, as one might fill a cup to the very brim with wine.  Now I am approaching life from a completely new standpoint, and even to conceive happiness is often extremely difficult for me.

And the trees were so glad to have the children back again that they had covered themselves with blossoms, and were waving their arms gently above the children's heads. 

Secret to remain young is to have an inordinate passion for pleasure.

I have never searched for happiness. Who wants happiness? I have searched for pleasure.

To live in happiness, you must know some unhappiness in life.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

The girl laughed again. The joy of a caged bird was in her voice.

What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

Cuando somos felices siempre somos buenos, pero cuando somos buenos no siempre somos felices

What does money matter? Love is more than money.