Jollity Quotes

#1. Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.

John Milton

#2. I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.

Marcus Brigstocke

#3. leave for Charlottetown to attend Queen's Academy. Their charmed circle would be broken; and, in spite of the jollity of their little festival, there was a hint of sorrow in every gay young heart.

L.M. Montgomery

#4. I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.

Vaslav Nijinsky

#5. All those who rejoice in the success of the church's enemies will share with them in their downfall; and those who have most indulged themselves in pride and pleasure are the least able to bear calamities; their sorrows will be as excessive as their pleasure and jollity were before.

Matthew Henry

#6. A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

Francois Rabelais

#7. Because I have this thing about birthdays--they always remind me of death and forced jollity.

Alain De Botton

#8. Even though it's meant to be the season of jollity and goodwill, there's something delicious about the anticipation of a Christmassy ghost thrill.

Mark Gatiss

#9. Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.

John Milton

#10. In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing but tragedies. So when the book of their consciences shall be once opened, there is nothing to be read but lamentations and woes.

Richard Sibbes

#11. There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly.
[There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]

George Herbert

#12. I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Samuel Johnson

#13. British food is a celebration of comfort eating. Our traditional savoury recipes are all about warmth and sustenance, our puddings a roll call of sweet jollity, our cakes are deep and cosy. We appear to be a nation in need of a big, warm hug.

Nigel Slater

#14. There isn't anyone who wants to see me married more than I do.

Sheri L. Dew

#15. Are we absolutely certain that Becky Albertalli didn't just steal the diary of a hilariously observant teenage boy? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a pitch-perfect triumph of wit and wordplay that feels timelessly, effortlessly now.

Tim Federle

#16. Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine.

Douglas Brinkley

#17. Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.

Haim Harari

#18. That's probably because they said a lot of other things, as well.

Donna Leon

#19. We are contaminated with the idea of "winning" and defeating others. Indoctrinated by parents, schools, and our ubiquitous media, hammered with a lie: The only way to be truly triumphant is if we are dominant before supposed "competitors" rather than beautiful before ourselves.

Daniel Gillies

#20. The telephone was a sign of being rushed.

David Halberstam

#21. She took Tsukuru's business card, her whole face lighting up in a smile, then pushed an extension number on her phone as if pressing the soft nose of an oversized dog.

Haruki Murakami

#22. Death is a debt to nature due, Which I have paid, and so must you.

Thomas Pynchon

#23. It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

Honore De Balzac

#24. I don't want to disappoint - that's a nightmare to me.

Nas

#25. Light is knowledge ,
Knowledge is love ,
Love is freedom.

Vittorio Storaro