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Quotes About Joviality

you niggers, is when you set in to tryin' to think," said Leander Purneau. He spoke in a friendly, jokey
~ James Patterson
Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.
~ Ernst Lubitsch
He's also a dick,' said Achilleus to a scattering of laughter. Maxie saw that even Nicola was trying to hide a smile.
~ Charlie Higson
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
~ Chevy Chase
...one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
~ Erasmus
Like a kettle boiling over, the room foamed with laughter.
~ Heather Vogel Frederick
I dearly love a laugh.
~ Jane Austen
What do you think makes you start laughing and unable to stop?
~ Jane Smiley
She has such a nice sense of rumor.
~ John Cutler
I have to have people around who are of a certain strain of humour. I can't deal with people who have no humour.
~ Jeff Beck
Clearly, the Goddess has a sense of humor.
~ P.C. Cast
Well, ha-jolly-ha to YOU, young Stiffie-- with knobs on!
~ P.G. Wodehouse
In private life, Lottie Blossom tended to substitute for wistfulness and pathos a sort of "Passed-For-Adults-Only" joviality which expressed itself outwardly in a brilliant and challenging smile, and inwardly and spiritually in her practice of keeping alligators in wickerwork baskets and asking unsuspecting strangers to lift the lid.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The grate desire ov mi life iz tew amuze sumboddy. I had rather be able to set the multiplikashun table tew sum lively tune than tew hav ein the author ov it.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.
~ Tom Waits
I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
~ William Shakespeare
Oh!" Celeste clapped her hand to her mouth, stifling laughter. "Matt said a bad word!" "I said titillating, not tit." "Now you said a bad word!" Celeste squealed.
~ Jessica Park
My friends joke I'm a 90-year-old stuck in a young man's body.
~ Douglas Booth
Everybody laughed for a long time, for it was the kind of joke that seemed to grow on you. You would laugh and eventually stop. But after a few minutes you would think of the joke again, and you would burst out laughing all over again.
~ Unknown
We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes.
~ Colin Mochrie
He who laughs loudest has a high probability of being extremely inebriated.
~ Lois Greiman
The threat of Christmas hung in the air, visible already in the fretful look of passersby as they readied themselves for the meaningless but necessary rites of false joviality and ill-considered gifts.
~ Unknown
A merry Christmas to all my friends except two.
~ W. C. Fields
there was nothing but mutual mischief.
~ Piers Anthony