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Quotes About Cheerfully

Sapphires for my bride-to-be and a severed head for the king my brother," said Duke Richard cheerfully. "As St Paul pointed out, gifts may vary but the spirit is the same. In the present instance, a spirit of goodwill.
~ reay tannahill
Dost thou not betray some of this spiritual pride working in thee? O, if thou couldst pray without wandering, walk without limping, believe without wavering, then thou couldst rejoice and walk cheerfully. It seems, soul, thou stayest to bring the ground of thy comfort with thee, and not to receive it purely from Christ. O how much better were it if thou wouldst say
~ William Gurnall
Toddlers often resist a command to "go to the car" but respond cheerfully to a request like "I need your help. Will you carry the keys to the car for me?
~ Jane Nelsen
Shakespeare watched Henry V not indeed as he watched the greater souls in the visionary procession, but cheerfully, as one watches some handsome spirited horse, and he spoke his tale, as he spoke all tales, with tragic irony.
~ yeats william butler ii
Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.
~ Orson Scott Card
Making and cheerfully keeping our covenants gives validity and life to the vital sacred and saving ordinances we need to receive in order to obtain all that the Father hath.
~ Linda K. Burton
Something about a bunch of trees made people think they could cut loose. "Wherever there's Nature, there's assholes," he said cheerfully.
~ Margaret Atwood
if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Where is your warrant?" Holmes half drew a revolver from his pocket. "This will have to serve till a better one comes." "Why, you're a common burglar." "So you might describe me," said Holmes cheerfully. "My companion is also a dangerous ruffian. And together we are going through your house.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Hugo could cheerfully have died of mortification - if such a mass of contradictions had been possible.
~ Mary Balogh
No one else spoke to him as she did, with as much frankness and . . . could he call it affection? Yes, he decided, exasperated affection, but affection all the same. "Will you ever stop suspecting me of ulterior motives?" "Yes, when you stop harboring as many of them as a Medici pope." "Then whom will you suspect for fun?" he answered cheerfully. He usually enjoyed himself around people. Her company, however, he adored.
~ Sherry Thomas
American girls are the best girls," he said cheerfully to his young companion.
~ Henry James
I suppose Boston and its inhabitants have by now recovered from your visit?" "I guess so, but Boston was burning right cheerfully as I left." Higgins
~ L.A. Meyer
Do you know what they're called? They're the Shadows That Live, Zuze. They're assassins." "Like me," said Zuzanna cheerfully.
~ Laini Taylor
The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people.
~ Grover Cleveland
When I first came to London I became a Life Member of the London Library. London life was costly, but I felt that, if the worst came to the worst, with a constant supply of books and a small dole for tobacco, I could cheerfully face the Workhouse.
~ Jane Ellen Harrison
can do that!" Peril said cheerfully. "I'll practice my menacing face right now. Rrrrgh. Hrrgrrrmbrrgh. Rrrroarrrrg." "You sound like you're digesting an overweight grizzly bear," Scarlet commented acidly.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Now, if anyone in the Refectory bothers you, you can chop off their head, Aaron thought cheerfully.
~ Holly Black
In no other city can one so cheerfully enjoy the accidents of bad art.
~ V.S. Pritchett
Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.
~ Arthur Frederick Saunders
His heart was beating very erratically; perhaps it would conveniently stop. He waited for a moment to allow it to do this if it liked, but it went on cheerfully thumping away.
~ Diana Gabaldon
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
~ Unknown
Wolves eat coyotes," Gordon said[...] If he weren't an old man, I had some rude things I could have said to that. "Yes," observed Adam blandly. "I do." Yep. That was the one that came to mind. And he didn't even blush when he said it. Maybe Gordon would miss the double entendre. But he grinned cheerfully at Adam.
~ Patricia Briggs