Top 144 Happily Quotes

I don’t eat meat, but I do cook it for my sons, so I’m a slave to expiry dates. I have a different approach to vegetables, since they don’t come out of the ground with a best-before sticker. I have red onions in the fridge which are six months old, but I’ll still happily eat them.
Susanna Reid
I’d happily cover the British Open every year until St. Andrews slides into the sea or Scotland runs out of beer, whichever happens first.
Steve Rushin
I think everyone knows what it is like being in love. It’s never a smooth thing. Whether you are happily together or not.
Olly Alexander
I’m a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
Patrick Marber
When you think about it, giving up your ‘real’ personality is a small price to pay for the richness of ‘living happily ever after’ with an actual man!
Lynda Barry
I always advise young women to have a career irrespective of how happily married they are. In fact, their in-laws and husband will value them more if they have an independent side to them.
Sussanne Khan
I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I’ll be doing next – or even if I’m going to work.
Matthew Macfadyen
I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
Elizabeth McGovern
I’ve had an absolutely charmed life in every aspect of it. I do for my job what I would do for a hobby if it wasn’t my job. Half the secret of happiness, I’m ecstatically happily married with three great kids, you know. It’s been a blessed life.
Graeme Base
I will happily sit at home and take care of the house.
Fahadh Faasil
There’s no such thing as the contemporary novel. Before I seem the complete reactionary, let me add that I’ve happily joined in many discussions about ‘the contemporary novel’ where what that usually, unproblematically means is novels that have appeared recently or may appear soon.
Graham Swift
In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.
Steven Wright
Some are short, others are tall, others are thin, others are stocky. But we are all human beings. Can we not live together and happily within one border?
Paul Kagame
Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow – happily, because if it didn’t, we’d be machines.
Emmanuelle Seigner
My day job may be exhausting, but cooking is my peace. My dream is to have a big family with lots of grandkids. And we’ll get together every Sunday for a hearty dinner at our house, and we’ll all live in flavorful bliss, happily ever after.
Chrissy Teigen
I always assumed I’d spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.
Teller
I started touring a little bit in 1973 in support of a record I made for an independent label. In 1975, when I signed with Warner Bros., where I remained happily ensconced for the next 24 years, my touring activity increased considerably.
Michael Franks
The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily.
George Harrison
If I happily smile and play around and laugh ‘ha-ha, hoo-hoo, yay,’ laughing like that, I think the photo looks cooler. If I just stand there like this, like ‘Oh, I’m a model,’ well, I don’t think that’s what it means to be a model at all.
HoYeon Jung
Throughout any given season of ‘The Bachelor,’ the women exclaim that the experience is like a fairy tale. They suffer the machinations of reality television, pursuing – along with several other women, often inebriated – the promise of happily ever after.
Roxane Gay
Nobody lives happily ever after, because that is extremely unrealistic.
Nadya Suleman
I would happily have done any of the ‘Bourne Identity’ sequels. There are good sequels, but I’m not good at making them.
Harold Ramis
I happily claim expertise in no single aspect of climbing, which is what has kept the passion burning hot all these years.
Alex Lowe
I grew up in a humble neighbourhood in Argentina called Dock Sud. From my house, about 200 metres away was a football pitch. That’s where I spent my childhood. It’s a neighbourhood where everybody helped each other because there was a lot of difficulties. There, I grew up happily, because I learned a lot of things.
Javier Zanetti
I’m a storyteller. I’m always willing to serve the story, a story I believe in, in whatever way is necessary. If I need to write the story I believe in, I will write it. If I’ve been offered to act in a story that I truly believe in, I will happily do that, but I’m a storyteller. That’s something I’m so thankful for.
Danai Gurira
I have worked out I can quite happily jog the distance to work as long as I hail a cab first and leave my high heels on the back seat.
Emily Maitlis
I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.
Connie Stevens
I’m happily married.
Javier Bardem
A song is a burden that you carry happily.
Mani Ratnam
I’m very fortunate to be doing what I dreamed of, what I love. So few people get that opportunity. So while people continue liking what I write, I’m going to happily continue.
Michael Robotham
I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.
Tom Hodgkinson
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
Flannery O’Connor
Very happily, I am very fortunate to be able to be where the wind takes me, where the work takes me, and where I want to be.
Nathan Phillips
Hell would freeze over before I saw my parents happily holding hands and ice skating.
Tana Mongeau
Driving through Dresden, I still remember the many palaces, happily decorated with cherubs and other symbols of the baroque era. The city made an indelible impression on me.
Gunter Blobel
Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
Russell Baker
I am not a lonely person. I am happily married and not looking for companions on social media.
Anand Mahindra
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Robert Louis Stevenson
My original business plan? To work hard, get 300 client

My original business plan? To work hard, get 300 clients in the Rochester area, and live happily ever after.
Tom Golisano
My mom was a housewife and a sponge, who would absorb everything and make it all look like a fairytale when he entered the house. For instance, when he came home, I would always be seen studying with my books open. She always made sure that Dad went back to the shoot happily.
Ram Charan
I have no problem in doing comedy, as I am happily consolidating my image of a comic actor.
Kartik Aaryan
Happily, I had lots of childhood heroes.
Kate DiCamillo
And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.
Piper Laurie
As much fun as it is gaming, I have so much to do that I’ve had to get away from them. I still enjoy them. When I go to a friend’s house and they have a game on, I’ll happily join in and play.
Paul Dini
Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.
Arabella Weir
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
Hannah Kent
Look, I’ve got incredible pride for my family. I’ve absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.
Christian Bale
I have never been married. I don’t know if I will ever marry, though I hope to. When I am asked why I have not married, I explain that my parents have been happily married for 42 years. The bar feels so very high for that kind of commitment.
Roxane Gay
One of the many falsities of fiction that we accept quite happily is the non-ageing of characters as they appear across series and sequels.
Michael Rosen
To get our passengers where they want to go safely and happily requires thousands of us working together with a shared purpose of supporting each other in serving our customers.
Oscar Munoz
I didn’t become an actor for the money, so I can’t stay with a job for that reason. I did too many years of theater where you just get by from month to month, happily, to make that a priority.
Jean Smart
I’d happily describe myself as a TV presenter now.
Rachel Riley
Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.
Nigella Lawson
There is, happily, a non-redistributive approach to address income inequality – one that doesn’t rely upon government. It’s to grow the pie. That is, create more decent jobs that pay more.
Andrew Yang
Acting was always on my mind so when the offer came to me I happily agreed to do it.
Disha Parmar
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
Nick Faldo
I am not naive, and I do realize that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. I am also fully aware that when segregation ended, we didn’t all live happily ever after. No one can convince me, however, that life in America would be better if blacks and whites had stayed separate and unequal.
Maysoon Zayid
The relationship between press and politician – protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial – becomes sour, raw and confrontational.
Roger Mudd