Felicity Quotes

The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the happiness and aggrandizement of one, or a few, and to this the public felicity, and every other interest must submit.

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

Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

True felicity consists of its own consciousness.

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

Nature's old felicities.

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

Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

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

A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.

These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

There are no rules for felicity.

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

Shopping, true feminine felicity!

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

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.