Felicity Quotations

I love working in television, and I've been thrilled to be a part of so many wonderful shows. I worked with Lady Gaga on 'Gossip Girl,' and the brilliant Felicity Huffman on 'Desperate Housewives,' but I think my favorite TV job so far was the pilot I shot for the CW Network this year called 'Joey Dakota.'

A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Do not let us despair of the cause of liberty: it is still dear to the hearts of Frenchmen, and we shall one day have the felicity of seeing it established in our beloved country.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

I would have to go with Felicity Huffman. What Felicity did was a kind of acting that has never been done in any other movie on the planet. She has opened up the portrayal of something. Imagine changing your aura to play something that people know so little about.

When the opportunity came along to partner with Bob and Harvey on 'Transamerica' we jumped at the chance, ... Having produced ' Boys Don't Cry ' and witnessing Hillary Swank 's transformation, we were immediately struck by Felicity Huffman's jaw-dropping performance here. She is nothing short of fantastic.

True felicity consists of its own consciousness.

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Felicity Huffman has to be Hollywood's 'It' girl of the moment.

Felicity is brilliant. She did her prep work and script analysis so well that she could just close her eyes and become (the character) and things happened without her knowing it.

I love Felicity Jones. It was funny because I went to go see the 'Rogue One' set, and I was like, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And she's so tiny, and elegant, and she's just so small. Everyone's so much smaller than they seem.

It worked out well that as Felicity and Kevin got to know each other better, so did Bree and Toby,

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

He frowns. "A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?

I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.

Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

Shopping, true feminine felicity!

No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness

I have heard him assert, that a tavern chair was the throne of human felicity

When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Still to ourselves in every place consigned, / Our own felicity we make or find.

Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

There are no rules for felicity.

These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.

Nature's old felicities.