Victor Hugo Quotes

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

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

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

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

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

A bellyful is a bellyful.

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

Decadence is wonderful.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

You really want to make sure that you have fun, at the end of the day. If it's not fun, what's the point.

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.