Quotes About Laughter

A joke that required to be laughed at was, with him, not worth uttering. He could appreciate by a keener sense than that of his ears the success of his wit, and would see in the eyes of his audience whether or no he was understood and appreciated.

The secret to humor is surprise.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

the laughable is a species of what is disgraceful.

We laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at feeling superior to them.

For the laughable is a sort of error and ugliness that is not painful and destructive, just as, evidently, a laughable mask is something ugly and distorted without pain.

Then they would both dissolve in giggles, bowing in their mirth to the awful hopelessness of it all.

Humor was the enemy of desire.

He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.

His name, said the cabman, was Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Never have I seen my friend more completely taken aback than by the cabman's reply. For an instant he sat in silent amazement. Then he burst into a hearty laugh.

I had the Irish faculty of seeing some gleam of humor in every darkness.

It is not easy to express the inexpressible, he answered with a laugh.

Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.

Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in it, after all." "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake in explaining.

It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing.

Summerlee burst into derisive laughter. 'A ptero-fiddlestick!' said he. 'It was a stork, if I ever I saw one.

She took a seat by his feet and eyed the half-empty bottle in his hand, then shifted her gaze to the other three empty bottles on the floor. 'Are you drunk?' ' Comfortably Inebriated ,' he said with a dark laugh, thinking of Shahara and her continuous need to know what C.I. stood for. Nykyrian scoffed. 'Well, if you get any more comfortable, buddy, I'll have to call in a med-tech.' - Kasen, Syn, & Nykyrian

I vote, I challenge Bathymaasy and we shoot arrows at you dearest brother. Artemis Set and Bathymaas laughed. Apollo, not so much.

Baby, it's either laugh or cry and crying takes way too much energy. If you can't find humor in the shit life heaps on you, you really will grow miserable. -Syn

Were you hurt?" (Nykyrian) Syn shifted, some of his anger diminishing. "No." (Syn) "Then why are you having a fit?" (Nykyrian) Syn laughed. "I don't know, it just felt right. You see why I don't like being sober? I overreact like an old woman." He opened his flask, then slammed it down on Nykyrian's desk. "Figures the damned thing would be empty." (Syn)

Laugh it up, asshole. But she who laughs last, laughs longest and I intend to belly roll tonight.

Sherryl Woods

Heather hid a smile at the

I'm not certain what you mean by that last bit," I said at last. "As for the first, you said 'until last year.' Does that mean that Lady Tamara has someone else in view?" "But of course," Nee said blandly. "The Marquis of Shevraeth." I laughed all the way up the steps into the Residence.