CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH

“CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES”

— Victor Hugo

“CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER”

— Victor Hugo

Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once…

— Victor Hugo

It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

— Francis Quarles

Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With…

— John Keats

Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!

— John Milton

Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old to be…

— Andrew Linzey

I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

— Francis Quarles

Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and…

— Holbrook Jackson

The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.

— William Wordsworth

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

— Samuel Johnson