Happily Quotes

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!

'Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.

I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.

This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.

I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.