Books Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Freedom Happiness
“For me, there is no happiness without freedom, and freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“you must ever be happy and joyful no matter what earthly conditions surround you.” — Violette Nakhjavani Copy Share Image
“What they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She’d spoken of their happiness as though it were an undeniable fact, no matter what happened—apart from everything else and not subject to it. It was a new idea for him, that happiness wasn’t a mystical place to be reached or won—some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it—but something to carry… — Laini Taylor Copy Share
“That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Even amid hardship, trials, and things that don’t go the way we want them to, we can find something to be joyful about.” — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
“That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness and for the bulk of mankind happiness was better.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Happiness can't be made; it's been around since forever... just freely waiting to be chosen.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“She'd spoken of their happiness as though it were an undeniable fact, no matter what happened--apart from everything else and not subject to it.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
