Quotes of: Gaiety Keyword

He had a reputation in society as a man with a lively wit, whose gaiety was pleasant and formidable – which all gaiety must be in a society which would despise you if, while amusing it, you did not make it tremble a little. ("A Woman's Vengeance")

Les Diaboliques

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Anatole France

listen thoughtfully sounds of laughter gaiety and melancholy galore

Archana Chaurasia Kapoor

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Denis Diderot

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

Russell Baker

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

Aidan Turner

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

Joseph Stalin

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Plato

Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.

Edward Rutherfurd

Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through color.

Emilio Pucci

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 easily.

Ronnie Corbett

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost.

H.P. Lovecraft

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, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

Emmuska Orczy

You meet somebody at the seashore on a vacation and have a wonderful time together. Or in a corner at a party, while the glasses clink and somebody beats on a piano, you talk with a stranger whose mind seems to whet and sharpen your own and with whom...

Robert Penn Warren

Let's not have forced gaiety this Christmas, said Nora, like it was a dish. We'll have a tiny bit of it, I said.

All My Puny Sorrows

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and lends to all that is good and just and beautiful.

Plato

And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn reverence for those songs of defiant gaiety.

We the Living

I extend my greetings and good wishes to all our citizens on the joyous occasion of Deepawali. The festival of lights, celebrated with gaiety and enthusiasm all over the country, signifies the victory of good over evil and is an appropriate occasion ...

Mohammad Hamid Ansari