Quotes by British Authors - Page 59

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
E. V. Lucas
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so.
John Stuart Mill
Enjoy your happiness while you have it and while you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.
Joseph Farrell
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
Bertrand Russell
No man can be merry unless he is serious.
G.K. Chesterton
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
What matters most is that we learn from living.
Doris Lessing
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
Rumer Godden
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool-shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple-teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep-wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise-follow him.
Lady Isabel Burton
There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Laughter is by definition healthy.
Doris Lessing
No social system will bring us happiness health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
Clement R. Attlee
An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
Ouida
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
Phyllis Bottome
If solid happiness we prize within our breast this jewel lies And they are fools who roam the world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our bliss must flow And that dear hut-our home.
Nathaniel Cotton
Family jokes though rightly cursed by strangers are the bond that keeps most families alive.
Stella Benson
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer recognize and protect and comfort each other.
Han Suyin
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.
Bertrand Russell
When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.
John Ruskin
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
Anne Ridler
Parenting at its best comes as naturally as laughter. It is automatic involuntary unconditional love.
Sally James
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
Samuel Johnson
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
Arthur Christopher Benson
Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
Harriet Martineau
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
Sir Theodore Martin
Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
Jane Porter
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness it has no taste.
Charlotte Brontë
Seldom can the heart be lonely If it seeks a lonelier still Self-forgetting seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.
Frances Ridley Havergal
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay when it strikes on a kindred heart like the converged light on a mirror it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
Jane Porter
All who would win joy must share it happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand Russell
Small kindnesses small courtesies small considerations habitually practiced in our social intercourse give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.
Mary Ann Kelty
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen
I know well that happiness is in little things.
John Ruskin
The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and after these the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.
Hugh Walpole
The little things are infinitely the most important.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
Amelia Barr
The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea in the conquest of the goal pursued.
R. Briffault
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
William J. Locke
True happiness we are told consists in getting out of one's self. But the point is not only to get out you must stay out. And to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
Henry James
Happiness comes from ... some curious adjustment to life.
Hugh Walpole
Life is not always what one wants it to be but to make the best of it as it is is the only way of being happy.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
The busiest man is the happiest man.
Sir Theodore Martin
Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
Cyril Connolly
Resolve to be thyself and know that who finds himself loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
A good message will always find a messenger.
Amelia Barr
It's no good saying one thing and doing another.
Catherine Cookson
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Stark
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
Samuel Johnson
The principles we live by in business and in social life are the most important part of happiness.
Harry Harrison
Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley
Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.
Robert J. McCracken
We hear voices in solitude we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition.
Amelia Barr
The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.
Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness is not a possession to be prized it is a quality of thought a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier
Those who seek happiness miss it and those who discuss it lack it.
Holbrook Jackson
This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea that very thing happiness which I have been pursuing all my life and have never yet overtaken.
Joanna Baillie
If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C.P. Snow