Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Gaiety can be found in making others happy. The true felicity is an inner quality. A state and peace of mind!” — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety:… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“The gaiety in love is a myth, because it's all TEMPORARY. The misery in love is an undeniable fact, as the bruises… — SoulWanderer Copy Share Image
Theatre remains the only thing I understand. It is in the community of theatre that I have my being. In spite of… — Robert Helpmann Copy Share Image
When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We must bear in recollection that the sentiment of the picture is that of solemnity, not gaiety & nothing garish, but the… — John Constable Copy Share Image
As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“Without inquiring too deeply into the causes which make it possible to find subjects of gaiety always close at hand, the proof… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster. — Marion Davies Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that. — Aidan Turner Copy Share Image
Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through color. — Emilio Pucci Copy Share Image
