The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

— Georg Brandes

“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the…

— Shannon L. Alder

“Unsavoury as it is below, there is cheerfulness, and comfort, and hard, honest work above. ("In The Court Of The Dragon")”

— Robert W. Chambers

Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden……

— Julie Moir Messervy

The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear…

— Michel De Montaigne

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice,…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Under the constitution, as the Danish queen I am bound to the Lutheran faith, but that does not exclude people of other faiths.

— Margrethe II of Denmark

“The idea of a sandwich as a snack goes back to Roman times. Scandinavians perfected the technique with the Danish open-faced sandwich, or smorroebrod,…

— DeeDee Stovel

I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

— Gillian Flynn

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a…

— Robert Graves

It wasn't until a year later, when a young woman with Danish pastries on either side of her head knelt down in front of…

— Simon Pegg

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

— Virginia Madsen