Top 179 Felicity Quotes & Sayings

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

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

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

If you yearn for holy felicity, shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Felicity," Mrs. Featherington interurupted, "why don't you tell Mr. Brdgerton about your watercolors?" For the life of him, Colin couldn't imagine a less interesting topic (except maybe for Phillipa's watercolors), but he nonetheless turned to the youngest Featherington with a friendly smile and asked, "And how are your watercolors?" But Felicity, bless her heart, gave him a rather friendly smile herself and said nothing but, "I imagine they're fine, thank you.

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

Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun.

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

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

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.

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

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

Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.

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

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

I think the first time I realized I was actually acting was during Felicity. Before that, I was just going along for the ride.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

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

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

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.

True felicity consists of its own consciousness.

Shopping, true feminine felicity!

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

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.

Felicity Huffman is just flawless; she's above and beyond TV and movies and this Earth.

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

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

It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much.

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.

I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

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

Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.

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

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

Felicity grimaced in agreement. “No, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of one’s butler is in allowing for nocturnal autonomy.

O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.

Do not let us despair of the cause of liberty: it is still dear to the hearts of Frenchmen, and we shall one day have the felicity of seeing it established in our beloved country.

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

There are no rules for felicity.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

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

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.

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.

Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

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

'Felicity' was my 'Gilmore Girls' because I grew up in a small town.

I'm a sucker for two things: Adam Lambert and songs that start out as emo as a sad episode of 'Felicity' and then drop. That. Beat.

It's funny because 'Felicity' didn't have a huge following, but the following it did have is hugely devoted, so people who are fanatics about 'Felicity' would run up to me all the time. I'd be at a bar, and someone will go, 'Hey, were you on Felicity? ...' I loved doing the show.

The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

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

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

As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.