Happiness Quote by Jane Austen

“Because she had always been happy, she wanted everyone about her to be happy or, at least, pleased with themselves. To this end, she…

— Margaret Mitchell

“In the joy of her gratified desires she wanted to make everybody about her happy. If only everyone would do as she wished she…

— Edith Wharton

“She preferred to be at the receiving end of envy than pity.”

— Julian Fellowes

“She felt listless, tragic, and slightly murderous. She was irritable and prickly with exactly those people who were the kindest to her.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“And as for herself, if she could manage to welcome sorrow as readily as joy, it would shape her as deftly as joy could…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought…

— Gustave Flaubert

“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“She had lost her compassion for people and a thick crust of indifference had formed around her feelings - that disgust that afflicts the…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“Where she was admittedly a little self absorbed he was generous. Where she was an emotional box of rocks ,he was stable.”

— Karla Telega

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

— Isaac Asimov

“The only thing that counted to her was her own opinion of herself. If that became smirched or spoiled there would be nothing left.…

— Josephine Tey

“She was sometimes happy, in the sense of being somehow complete, and ready for what another day might bring. And knows she is no…

— William Gibson