Quotes About Felicity

Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.

When therefore we once begin so to love good men, as not only (according to Plato) to esteem the wise man himself happy, and him who hears his discourses sharer in his felicity, but also to admire and love his habit, gait, look, and very smile, so as to wish ourselves to be that very person, then we may be assured that we have made very good proficiency.

I'm a sucker for two things: Adam Lambert and songs that start out as emo as a sad episode of 'Felicity' and then drop. That. Beat.

Felicity, felicity - how shall I say it? - is quaffed out of a golden cup in every latitude: the flavour is with you - with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Hell stood directly contiguous to Heaven, so that the blessed could augment their felicity by gazing down upon the tortures of the damned.

Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.

Nature's old felicities.

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Happiness wishes everybody happy.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

I always hope for roles that have some depth and that I can get my teeth into and that will challenge me, in some way.

The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.

O what auailes it of immortall seed To beene ybred and neuer borne to die? Farre better I it deeme to die with speed, Then waste in woe and wailefull miserie. Who dyes the vtmost dolour doth abye, But who that liues, is left to waile his losse: So life is losse, and death felicitie. Sad life worse then glad death: and greater crosse To see friends graue, then dead the graue selfe to engrosse.

It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire. The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level, the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit evaporated.

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.