Felicity Quotes

116 quotes by 80 authors

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the… — Edward Abbey
It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not have chosen the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate… — Thomas Jefferson
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things. — Plutarch
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression — Amos Bronson Alcott
I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and… — Benjamin Franklin
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty? — Edmund Spenser
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. — Margaret Cavendish
It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace,… — Edward Gibbon
The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness. — Robert Browning
Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a… — Italo Calvino
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose… — Samuel Johnson
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy… — John Dryden
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned,… — Samuel Johnson
Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity. — Josef Pieper
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,… — Edith Wharton
All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the… — George Washington
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is… — Khalil
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live. — Thomas Browne

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