“In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness.”
Happy feeling
Happy Quotes — page 286 of 349
“To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.”
“What a lark! What a plunge!”
“If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.”
“I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!”
“I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.”
“Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.”
“Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.”
“Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.”
“And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.”
“These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.”
“They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed their days was given to first-year students, on the basis that if they got things wrong there wouldn't be too much education wasted.”
“Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.”
“They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.”
“And the new day was a great big fish.”
“I like being a writer.”
“TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.”
“Everyone is reading what they like and that's a good thing.”
“The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people think that the book was good value for money, you have achieved something, because if you haven't achieved those things you're not going to achieve the other thing.”
“Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world.”