Felicity Quotes - Page 4

• I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.

  Libba Bray

  Lying, Fighting, Trying

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• She was chosen,' Mae insists. No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'... She was gone for some time. You were the only force that kept her from turning completely. That's magic. Perhaps the most powerful I've seen.' -In response to Felicity's love for Pippa keeping her from turning into a Winterland creature.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Powerful, Magic

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• Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Reality, Fleeting

  Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Artificial Paradises”, Citadel Press

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• Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

  Agatha Christie

  Missing, Overcoming, Plymouth

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• He frowns. "A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?

  Libba Bray

  Gentleman, Available

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Expression, Ideas, Lazy

  "Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co., 318 U.S. 54". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. February 1, 1943.

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• For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Envy, Lightning, Ordinary

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• As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.

  Solon

  Men, Blessing, Giving

  "Solon". Book by Plutarch, ch. 27; translation by Bernadotte Perrin, 1497.

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• Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Sweet, Moving, Four Elements

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

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• How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.

  William Davenant

  Beautiful, Grief, Sorrow

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• An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Heart, Imagination, Heaven

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• Shopping, true feminine felicity!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Shopping, Feminine

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.16

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• A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Careers, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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• Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Progress, Desire, Way

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.137

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• [I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.

  Edward Bellamy

  Home, Should Have, Perfect

  Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.56, VM eBooks

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• I got offered that role in Transamerica that Felicity Huffman did. That was a part that I was like, "Well, maybe I should've done that." I'm at peace with it, but that is one thing that I did turn down that went on to do great things for her. I wonder what would've happened if I would've done that.

  Allison Janney

  Done, Wonder, Great Things

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

  Quentin Crisp

  Home, Two, Culture

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• I have always been business minded, always been sorta an entrepreneurial guy; I played a character on Felicity that was modeled after me, actually.

  Greg Grunberg

  Character, Guy, Entrepreneurial

  "Interview: Greg Grunberg and August Trometer, Founders of Yowza, Action Heroes". Interview with John Biggs, techcrunch.com. July 10, 2009.

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• There are no rules for felicity.

  Victor Hugo

  Happiness

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• Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss,
  Gives and receives all bliss,--
  fullest when most
  Thou givest! spring-head of all felicity,
  Deepest when most is drawn! emblem of God!
  O'erflowing most when greatest numbers drink!

  Robert Pollok

  Spring, Numbers, Giving

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”

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• It is only with the companionship of the Holy Ghost that we can hope to be equally yoked in a marriage free from discord. I have seen how that companionship is crucial for felicity in a marriage. The miracle of becoming one requires the help of heaven, and it takes time.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Becoming One, Heaven, Miracle

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• Nature's old felicities.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.254

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• Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.

  Rumi

  Play, Flutes, Melody

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Heart, Eye, Long

  Letter to Harold Laski, 31 May 1923

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• I'm an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time. I'll never be able to write as many scripts as I did for "Felicity" or "Alias" ever again. I'm just too impatient these days. I want to get on to the next project.

  J. J. Abrams

  Writing, Long, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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