Gayety Quotes

#1. Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,
the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

Samuel Johnson

#2. Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.

Agnes Repplier

#3. We have yet to learn again the forgotten art of gayety.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#4. His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

Samuel Johnson

#5. He found, as the new century gathered headway, that his thirst for gayety grew stronger.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. The recollection of one upward hour
Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer
The darkness of despondency, than years
Of gayety and pleasure.

James Gates Percival

#7. Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter gayety and summer idleness produce whole bouquets of engagements, and set young people to pairing off like the birds.

Louisa May Alcott

#8. Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

Richard Steele

#9. Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.

Samuel Johnson

#10. Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#11. The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

Agnes Repplier

#12. This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#13. Like electricity, the Light is everywhere, but one must know how to activate it. I have come for that.

Mother Meera

#14. Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender

Juvenal

#15. Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.

Beau Bridges

#16. Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

Jimenez Lai

#17. Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. We have to get government out of the job of picking winners and losers. That's what they've been doing the last year and a half, getting in the way of businesses that are trying to reinvest to get our economy back on its feet.

Kristi Noem

#19. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.

Khaled Hosseini

#20. How darkly and how deadly dost thou speak!
Your eyes do menace me. Why look you pale?
Who sent you hither? Wherefore do you come?

William Shakespeare