Gaiety Quotes

46 quotes by 41 authors

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. — Russell Baker
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the… — Samuel Johnson
Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old. — Michel de Montaigne
I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die… — Ronnie Corbett
At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful… — Federico Garcia Lorca
What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you… — Peggy Noonan
Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through color. — Emilio Pucci
Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note. — Arthur Schopenhauer
As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds. — Dorothy Draper
When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness,… — Baroness Orczy
Theatre remains the only thing I understand. It is in the community of theatre that I have my being. In spite of jealousies and fears,… — Robert Helpmann
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor… — Samuel Johnson
You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety… — Martha Graham
Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in… — Samuel Johnson
The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time of… — Ashley Montagu
To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster. — Marion Davies
Have not Manet and Monet, CÃ©zanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the… — Winston Churchill
Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the… — John Quincy Adams

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