Felicity Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

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

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

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

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.

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.

I can't imagine actually singing on this show like I did on 'Felicity,' but it would be kind of funny.

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

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

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

My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.

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.

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