Character Quote by Quintilian Download Open image “A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.” — Quintilian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Laughter Too much Virtue
That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The price of a laugh is too high, if it is raised at the expense of another — Proverb Copy Share Image
Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It's one thing to make people laugh, but after a certain point, comedy is almost cheap. — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
What is it about business that makes us laugh - when things go wrong, which they do all the time (why, I still wish… — Ronnie Apteker Copy Share Image
“Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.” — Harriet Rochlin Copy Share Image
Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
There is reason to smile and celebrate when you win, but when you struggle, that is about laughter. That is the pathos that is… — Ronnie Apteker Copy Share Image
“For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“In writing are the roots, in writing are the foundations of eloquence; by writing resources are stored up, as it were, in a sacred… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
