Always Quote by Henri Bergson

Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed.…

— Henri Bergson

On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a pleasure that…

— Henri Bergson

Now, if laughter is proper to the human being, then the human being who does not laugh invites the charge of inhumanity, or at…

— Simon Critchley

We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later…

— Muriel Spark

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

— Graham Greene

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

— Michel de Montaigne

In England, you laugh at yourselves; in France, we laugh at others.

— Lou Doillon

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what…

— Marcel Proust

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

— Thomas Carlyle

What I've found is that humans do laugh at the same things everywhere.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I don't ever want to police people's laughter. People laugh for all different kinds of reasons.

— Cord Jefferson

Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.

— Mason Cooley