Gaiety Quotes

Is it not possible that the ultimate end is gaiety and music and a dance of joy?

— James Stephens

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“...that kernel of gaiety that never breaks.”

— Evelyn Waugh

there is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief.

— Caitlin Thomas

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

— Joseph Stalin

Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

— Lewis Carroll

Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

— Michel de Montaigne

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

— Aidan Turner

I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through color.

— Emilio Pucci

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

— Russell Baker

To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster.

— Marion Davies

Neverland is the way I would like real life to be ... timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic.

— Mary Martin

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.

— Edward Rutherfurd

The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most…

— Ashley Montagu

When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us…

— Francois Fenelon

Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the…

— John Quincy Adams

I extend my greetings and good wishes to all our citizens on the joyous occasion of Deepawali. The festival of lights, celebrated…

— Mohammad Hamid Ansari

Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of…

— Adrienne Monnier

Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the…

— Samuel Johnson

You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me…

— Henry Miller

“Without inquiring too deeply into the causes which make it possible to find subjects of gaiety always close at hand, the proof…

— Marcel Proust

Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has…

— Samuel Johnson

I believe in a passionately strong feeling for the poetry of life - for the beautiful, the mysterious, the romantic, the ecstatic…

— Leopold Stokowski

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

— Madame de Stael

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Days of gaiety – rays of deity. Infinite joy – eternal boy.”

— John Biccard

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

— Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing more tedious than a constant round of gaiety.

— Margery Sharp

Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Gaiety can be found in making others happy. The true felicity is an inner quality. A state and peace of mind!”

— Jyoti Patel

Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety.

— Dorothea Brande

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

— Denis Diderot

We must bear in recollection that the sentiment of the picture is that of solemnity, not gaiety & nothing garish, but the…

— John Constable

As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit…

— George Crabbe

“The gaiety in love is a myth, because it's all TEMPORARY. The misery in love is an undeniable fact, as the bruises…

— SoulWanderer