Top 23 Felicities Quotes
#1. I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.
Gertrude Atherton
#2. These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
Victor Hugo
#3. Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.
Ralph Ellison
#4. Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
Amos Bronson Alcott
#5. Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.
William Temple
#6. The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Francis Bacon
#7. Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#8. But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#9. If you live in certain places, in a certain way, you'd better learn to praise the small felicities.
Michael Cunningham
#11. Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
Thomas Browne
#12. Climate change is a complex problem with no central lever, and with unequal distribution of resources.
Seth Priebatsch
#13. As I've said before, I never understand why people ski down a slope to a bar and then go on a lift so they can ski down the same slope again. That's like walking to the pub on a Sunday, then going home and walking to the pub again. Madness.
Jeremy Clarkson
#14. Don't you dare counsel me. A cause isn't love, Penelope. Love breaks you wide open.
Ellen Davis Conner
#15. The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
Gavid Hood
#16. If a man wishes to be sure of the road he's traveling on, then he must close his syes and travel in the dark.
San Juan De La Cruz
#17. We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
George Bernard Shaw
#18. Wow. Being responsible sure takes it out of you. This calls for a Pop-Tart.
Jenny B. Jones
#19. People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
Mao Zedong
#21. Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
Plato
#22. Destinations are less important than the spirit you bring to them.
Pico Iyer
#23. I love him, Melanie. I love him He's not just a star, he's the whole fucking sky to me. He's the sun and every planet in this galaxy.
Katy Evans
