Famous Quotes

"The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right."

Quentin Crisp on Happiness

More quotes about Happiness

• "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

  John Barrymore on Happiness

• "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

  Dalai Lama on Happiness

• "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

  Abraham Lincoln on Happiness

• "I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

  Martha Washington on Happiness

• "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Happiness

More quotes by Quentin Crisp

• "For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change."

• "Manners are love in a cool climate."

• "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."

• "It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom."

• "Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave."