Banquets Quote by John Gay

I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off,…

— Ira Glass

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

— Alan Cooper

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Infectious smile has infected tears The laughter strikes with spears I am not dear and they are not sincere Feeling fear I must perform…

— Louis Cecile

“The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when men discovered we can better shout orders from there.”

— Betty Grable

“Gundar's smile broadened at the memory of that evening as he recalled how his rough-and-tumble sailors had stayed on their best manners, humbly asking…

— John Flanagan

“Throughout my life I have seen, without one exception, narrow-shouldered men performing innumerable idiotic acts, brustalising their fellows, and corrupted souls by every means.…

— Comte de Lautréamont

“This Nicholas anon leet fle a fart As greet as it had been a thonder-dent, That with the strook he was almoost yblent; And…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“Too many people drag through the day with long faces. Some don’t smile for months. Then they’ll come up with those same sour faces…

— Joel Osteen

“If you want more joy in your daily life, smile at the people you meet in the street, the woman sitting beside you on…

— Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

— Sheila Heti