Happiness Quote by Baroness Emma Orczy

“What is she like? I was told— she is a melancholy soul.”

— Lang Leav

“Certainly she was wonderfully beautiful. All that could be said of her that was in any sense critical was that there seemed to be…

— Victor Hugo

“Her love was like lavender, delicate and melancholy.”

— Laura Chouette

“Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.”

— Isabel Allende

“I was hardly worthy of these surroundings. And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped about my body, and had the…

— Arthur Golden

“She breathed in the crisp autumn air, hoping the loveliness of nature would somehow cleanse her soul and overshadow her sorrow.”

— J.E.B. Spredemann

“She indulged in melancholy, that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries...”

— Charles Dickens

“The beauty of melancholy cannot be attained by looking. You must embrace the terror it breeds. Then you will be pleased.”

— S.E. Lindberg

“She was moved to a profound but pleasurable melancholy by the evidence that human life is brief and long survived by the material things…

— Helen Hooven Santmyer

“For the first time, I smelled her. I can't describe the smell. Flowery, yet somehow musty, like a beautiful woman with the soul of…

— Caris O'Malley

“She might be a little introverted, livelier of movement than of conversation, neither bashful nor forward, with a soul that seemed submerged, but in…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“She possesses what someone once described to me as all the unlovable virtues.”

— Isaac Asimov