A Happy Boy Quotes

“I will tell you why I have been so happy before: it was because I did not really love any one; from the day we love someone, we cease to be happy.”
― Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, A Happy Boy

“Ah, no! He who is ambitious is never happy.”
― Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, A Happy Boy

“This, Oyvind, has been a well-merited recompense. You have not studied from love of your religion or of your parents; you have studied from vanity.”
― Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, A Happy Boy

“These tears at the dance were the forerunners of those at the wedding. Between them lay Oyvind's faith and his work.”
― Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, A Happy Boy