Margaret Oliphant Quotes

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Satisfaction is a major player in the happiness stakes.

They say people live to be happy. If you actually think about what happiness is, it's nothing much. When you get to eat ramen after feeling really, really hungry, that's happiness.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Our goal should be to achieve joy.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

How sweet it is!

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.