Felicity Quotes

• Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Spiritual, Wealth

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• To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Trying

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.343

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• For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Delight, Pleasure, Method

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• True felicity consists of its own consciousness.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Consciousness

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• A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Men, Blessing

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• That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Sweet, Perfect, Fruition

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 7

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• Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Happiness, Fluency, Merit

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Essays and Reviews”, p.60

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• Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.

  Daniel Boone

  Philosophy, Believe, Men

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.4, Applewood Books

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• 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 all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

  Marquis de Sade

  Lying, Mean, Men

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

  Washington Irving

  Marriage, Two, Three

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• I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn't win, but Felicity won, and when you come to the set next time, you can give her a big congratulations.

  Teri Hatcher

  Congratulations, Winning, Giving

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• It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.295, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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 industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

  Samuel Butler

  Heaven, Mars, Excluded

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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  The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

  Francis Bacon

  Jobs, Affliction, Ghost

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Adversity'

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• Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Children, Care

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• What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

  Edmund Spenser

  Fall, Liberty, Delight

  'Muiopotmos' l. 209

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• Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

  George Meredith

  Duty, Possession, Obligation

  'The Egoist' (1879) ch. 14

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• We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Disappointment, Ambition, Wheels

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor: Imaginary conversations. Third series : Conversations of literary men (First series)”

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• How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

  Catharine Beecher

  Marriage, Disappointment, Heart

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.211

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• Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Insecure, Age

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.84

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• 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 so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

  Jane Austen

  Party, Doe, Littles

  "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 6, 1813.

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• They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Society, Faces

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.83, GENERAL PRESS

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• 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 of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Breaking Away, Anticipation

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.3

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• There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Men, Age, Sides

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

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