Merriment Quotes

37 quotes by 32 authors

An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous… — Billie Burke
And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes… — Lewis Carroll
A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment. — Prince Philip
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their… — Sinclair Lewis
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment â€“ and… — Dmitri Shostakovich
Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was… — Charles Dickens
This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive. — Samuel Johnson
Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment. — Hilaire Belloc
Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously. — C.S. Lewis
Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence. — Lord Byron
place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his… — Confucius
Christmas is more than a time of music, merriment and mirth; it is a season of meditation, mangers and miracles. Christmas is more than a… — William Arthur Ward
Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air… — Edgar Allan Poe
Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment. — Robert Herrick
O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? — John Keats
By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. — Samuel Johnson
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief… — D. H. Lawrence
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances. — William Powell

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