Felicity Quotes

116 Felicity quotes by 80 unique authors

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. — Samuel Johnson
Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation… — Louis Nizer
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand,… — Erasmus Darwin
Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only. — Amos Bronson Alcott
A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly… — Felix Frankfurter
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. — Benjamin Franklin
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of… — Thomas Jefferson
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes… — Samuel Johnson
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. — Samuel Johnson
That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown. — Christopher Marlowe
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds… — Marquis de Sade
I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could… — Libba Bray
she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change… — Jane Austen
Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun. — Libba Bray
These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps — Victor Hugo
Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at… — Libba Bray
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever… — Jane Austen
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is… — Swami Vivekananda
Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder? — Libba Bray
It is youthâ€™s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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