Quotes About Joy

I am excessively diverted.

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.

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

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.

that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

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

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

I would much rather have been merry than wise.

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

It is such a happiness when good people get together -- and they always do.

Money is the best recipe for happiness.

Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint

Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...

All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!