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Quotes About Laughter

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
~ Jane Austen
I dearly love a laugh.
~ Jane Austen
it was rather because she felt less happy than she had expected.  She laughed because she was disappointed…
~ Jane Austen
in dawdling through the greenhouse, where the loss of her favorite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte,-and in visiting her poultry-yard, where in the disappointed hopes of her dairymaid, by hens forsaking their nests, or being stolen by a fox, or in the rapid decease of a promising young brood, she found fresh sources of merriment.
~ Jane Austen
I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
~ Jane Austen
It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.
~ Jane Austen
Mr. Palmer does not hear me, said she, laughing, he never does sometimes. It is so ridiculous!
~ Jane Austen
You and I, Sir John, said Mrs. Jennings, should never stand upon such ceremony. Then you would be very ill-bred, cried Mr. Palmer. My love, you contradict every body, - said his wife with her usual laugh. Do you know that you are quite rude? I did not know I contradicted any body in calling your mother ill-bred.
~ Jane Austen
Marriage should be about fun. It's about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun.
~ Jane Green
If Meredith tries contradicting him, he laughs indulgently and pets her, stroking her arm or cheek as if she is a mischievous cat.
~ Jane Green
After he got back to his apartment that evening, Arthur remembered how completely he'd thought he'd solved the problem of his own childhood once he'd claimed Lillian and enveloped her in his dream--no one idle, no one beset by solitude, everyone laughing. The problem he had not solved, or even known existed, was how quickly it passed, every joke, every embrace, every babyhood and childhood, every moment of thinking that he had things figured out for good.
~ Jane Smiley
What do you think makes you start laughing and unable to stop?
~ Jane Smiley
He laughed with a kind of mirthless bark.
~ Jane Smiley
If we do not laugh, we will cry. Crying will only make us hotter and sweatier. We Jews like to joke about death because what you laugh at and make familiar can no longer frighten you. Besides, Chayaleh, what else is there to do?
~ Jane Yolen
Laughter in the face of certain death? It is the very definition of the Hero, said the White Queen. The Jabberwock knew it and therefore could no longer move against you.
~ Jane Yolen
Leaping and looping with his little striped friends, verdi laughed and said I may be big and very green, but I'm still me!
~ Janell Cannon
Its always nice to have a stud muffin at the table.
~ Janet Evanovich
Valerie was crying, too. She was laughing and sniffling back sobs. "I'm going to marry my snuggy wuggums," she said. Morelli paused, his fork halfway to the roast chicken platter. He slid his eyes to me and leaned close. "If you ever call me snuggy wuggums in public I'll lock you in the cellar and chain you to the furnace.
~ Janet Evanovich
Ranger slung an arm around me and hugged me into him, and I could feel him laughing. "It's not funny," I said. "Babe, I haven't got a lot of funny in my life. Let me enjoy the moment.
~ Janet Evanovich
Steph?" "Huh?" I still had my hands on his stomach, and I could feel him laughing. "I can smell something burning, babe. You must be thinking." It wasn't my brain that was on fire. I felt around a little with my fingertips. He shook his head. "Don't encourage me. This isn't a good time." He removed my hands from his stomach and took another look at the cuts. "How did this happen?
~ Janet Evanovich
Morelli ran after him, there was a lot of yelling and growling, and Morelli came down empty-handed. "He ate it," Morelli said. I was horrified to the point of gagging. Ranger stared down at his shoe, making a monumental effort not to laugh. And Morelli stood hands on hips, staring at the bloody splotch on his rug.
~ Janet Evanovich
I cut my eyes to the alley. Ranger was still there, doubled over the steering wheel, shaking with laughter.
~ Janet Evanovich
Ranger slung an arm around me and hugged me into him, and I could feel him laughing.
~ Janet Evanovich
Are you laughing? I can feel you laughing. My life isn't funny!" "Babe, your life should be a prime-time sitcom.
~ Janet Evanovich