Top 100 Perfectly Happy Quotes
#1. I do believe you would be perfectly happy shut up in your study with your rolls of manuscript all your life, without seeing another human being save a servant to bring you in bread and fruit and water twice a day.
G.A. Henty
#2. I think the things I wanted answered have been answered by people in the know that we can't talk about, so I'm perfectly happy with how Chewie came to be where he is and what is going on in Episode III.
Peter Mayhew
#3. I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
Jane Austen
#4. I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.
Brian May
#5. I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.
Marie Rutkoski
#6. No matter where you go, no matter where you live, a Kansas fan is a Kansas fan: implacable, insufferable and perfectly happy to stay that way.
Paul Shirley
#7. She isn't the kind of girl that makes you wonder why she doesn't have someone, you just know that the kind of guy who is good enough for her is rare, and she projects the kind of strength that says she is perfectly happy to wait till he shows up.
Stacey Ballis
#8. One day ... " Gabe whispered. "When my heart is mine again. When I'm not sharing it with a dying girl ... I'll give you everything."
"Gabe," I said, sighing. "Right now? I'm perfectly happy with the pieces. No matter how broken they may be.
Rachel Van Dyken
#9. Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren Buffett
#10. I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas.
Robert Stromberg
#11. I'm one of the old crabby types and younger people are perfectly happy with everything that goes on.
Cosimo Matassa
#12. I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#13. I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.
Joan Collins
#14. I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.
Neil Turok
#15. [T]o a limited being its limited understanding is not felt to be a limitation; on the contrary, it is perfectly happy and contented with this understanding[.]
Ludwig Feuerbach
#16. I'm perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don't pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I'm actually being quite greedy, because what I'm doing is essentially saying, 'I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.'
Matt Ridley
#17. I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.
Joss Whedon
#18. I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.
Diane Wakoski
#19. I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.
Shawn Ryan
#20. You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.'
'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.
Jane Austen
#21. I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.
Jorge Garcia
#22. I was perfectly happy where I was, deliquescing, atom by atom, amid a riot of luxury.
Lev Grossman
#23. I've been in perfect health and perfectly happy all my life. I don't take any pills; I just get up, clean up after my wife, and start typing every day.
T.C. Boyle
#24. I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.
Carl Paladino
#25. I don't think I've ever made a conscious effort to alter the sound. I don't see the point. I have to remain true to how I sing. I'm perfectly happy with what I am. Whatever that is.
Steven Morrissey
#26. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.
Mother Teresa
#27. I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.
Heidi Klum
#28. Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?
William Makepeace Thackeray
#29. I'm perfectly fine with the fact that lots of young folks are wanting to watch anime and read manga. I'm perfectly happy that they are doing things online, reading there as opposed to traditional print magazines.
John Scalzi
#30. I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.
Linus Torvalds
#31. I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government.
Ted Cruz
#32. Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.
Craig Brown
#33. Because in some other universe, you are me, I am you, and we are perfectly happy together. Or perhaps not ... and just like this ...
Abhimanyu Jha
#34. People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.
Christina Ricci
#35. I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.
Tamsin Greig
#36. It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.
Horace Kephart
#37. Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.
Alex Steffen
#38. I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public.
Rudolf Bing
#39. Nothing I had drunk had ever tasted like that before: rich and warm and perfectly happy in my mouth. I remembered that milk long after I had forgotten everything else.
Neil Gaiman
#40. Fear is the cause of every problem. It's the root of all prejudices and the negative emotions of anger, jealousy, and possessiveness. If you had no fear, you could be perfectly happy living in this world.
Michael A. Singer
#41. For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go.
Pete Townshend
#42. A beautiful wake-up is one of life's most perfectly happy times.
Michael Leunig
#43. The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
Aldous Huxley
#44. You are without needs. There is nothing that you need in order to be perfectly happy. You only think that there is. Your deepest, most perfect happiness will be found within, and once you find it, nothing exterior to your Self can match it, nor can anything destroy it.
Neale Donald Walsch
#45. By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up,
Lori Gottlieb
#46. I'm not mad. I'm in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.
Kurt Cobain
#47. On my death bed, I'm not going to say, 'God I wish I did more movies.' I'm perfectly happy I was present for the ones I did.
Mike Myers
#48. Love'
Two perfectly happy people ready to gamble
Karan Patade
#49. There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.
Giacomo Casanova
#50. She was a bibliophile - she would be perfectly happy never talking to another human being again as long as she had books to read.
Brenda L. Harper
#51. Now you see why I can't be perfectly happy. No one could, who has red hair.
L.M. Montgomery
#52. While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.
John Spence
#53. I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny.
Joan Rivers
#54. Not everyone has to fly high to prove they exist; some of us are perfectly happy flying low and enjoying the view.
Mike A. Lancaster
#55. We can't ever be together," he finished. "But I always want to know you, even if we're in the same room and you're just saying hi to me over and over again, I'll be perfectly happy. I'll always want to be sitting across from you.
Adam Silvera
#56. I'm perfectly happy about being superstitious and atheistic.
Philip Pullman
#57. Puddleglum!" said Jill. "You're a regular old humbug. You sound as doleful as a funeral and I believe you're perfectly happy. And you talk as if you were afraid of everything, when you're really as brave as - as a lion.
C.S. Lewis
#58. ("It's crazy," she'd said, "but I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better way to go insane.")
Donna Tartt
#59. I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.
Linus Torvalds
#60. My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.
Tom Stoppard
#61. Perfectly happy momma goes out into the fields. she eavesdrops on herself, in case somewhere deep inside a melody rings out or a blackbird sings, but all that she hears, is only the cancer, which saws and eats away at her.
Elfriede Jelinek
#62. I'll be a great doctor with excellent bedside skills.
I'll be perfectly happy.
But something about Natasha makes me think my life could be extraordinary.
Nicola Yoon
#63. To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.
Helen Rowland
#64. To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Victor Hugo
#65. I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why don't you go to the dance with the boys?' And I'm going, 'No, I'm perfectly happy.' I think my parents thought I was definitely weird.
Ridley Scott
#66. People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'
Jack O'Brien
#67. Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you ... hence the delusion necessary to push on.
Marc Maron
#68. I'm perfectly happy for my videos to be on YouTube, whether I'm getting paid for them or not. If they're on YouTube, people will see them. If for some reason my videos get taken down from YouTube, well, I apologize. If it was up to me they'd all be up there and they'd all be free.
Moby
#69. I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.
Cornelia Funke
#70. I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.
Jonathan Coe
#71. When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.
Ariel Pink
#72. You ought to live in such a way that you would be perfectly happy to have everything that you do known. And if you don't do that, maybe you'd better change a little bit.
Henry B. Eyring
#73. I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or ... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people.
Joel Coen
#74. Genevieve hunched her shoulders against the storm of sound and fury and struggled to imagine a worse sort of hell. Widdershins, of course, seemed perfectly happy, but Widdershins was weird.
Ari Marmell
#75. I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses - which I will do anyway.
Dakota Johnson
#76. I don't "need" the rush to be happy. I'd be perfectly happy without the attention and action.
Guy Kawasaki
#77. It's hard to say which I like more, the perfectly happy days or the hours right after we've ended a good fight.
Crystal Woods
#78. No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
Herbert Spencer
#79. My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.
Jennifer Lynch
#80. The more we love, the more we fear. Rejection, or what others might think, these are just the beginning. In a perfectly happy relationship, we fear losing the other person to disease or chance.
Jay Bell
#81. There is no failure in life. It all depends how you take things. If you are desiring too much - you want to reach too high, and you cannot - then there is frustration and failure. But if you are not desiring anything and you are perfectly happy wherever you are, life is moment-to-moment victory.
Rajneesh
#82. Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.
Chris Patten
#83. There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.
Conrad Veidt
#84. Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun.
Sarah Waters
#85. I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.
Charles Spurgeon
#86. It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be perfectly free and perfectly happy.
Frederick Lenz
#87. There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.
James Mercer
#88. A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine.
Ursula Hegi
#89. All I had ever wanted was a dog who would sleep in my lap while I read and lick my neck and bring me the ball to throw eighty-seven times in a row. I thought a dog would be the key to perfect happiness. And I was right. We are perfectly happy. (
Ann Patchett
#90. Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.
Bill Kristol
#91. Why is that fairy-tales always treat marriage as an ending? And always such a perfectly happy one?
Salman Rushdie
#92. I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody: Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians - I'll work with Martians if - and the if is critical - they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.
Ted Cruz
#93. I'm perfectly happy to have the reputation as a comedian. I love comedies, I would love to be doing more comedies. But I also feel like I hit the limit on playing the girlfriend type in a lot of rom-coms that aren't actually rom-coms, but guy movies that happen to have girls in them.
Elizabeth Banks
#94. I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
John Cage
#95. I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.
Alan Hollinghurst
#96. You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.
Victoria Justice
#97. I try to ignore the fact that I can feel Kieren's hard-on against my ass and that it's perfectly pressing into me. I tell my suddenly happy cunny to stop quivering with excitement. Naughty, puss, that's creepy Kieren rubbing on you. Stop purring, dammit!
Erica Chilson
#98. I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me.
Lindsay Duncan
#99. People who are perfectly sane and happy don't make good literature, alas.
Colette
#100. He was happy enough to stay in this jumbled, lively place where the drinks were cheap and the band was loud and he could feel the inner peace that comes from knowing that all your clothes are new and perfectly fitted.
Richard Yates