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Quotes About Laughter

The girl laughed again. The joy of a caged bird was in her voice.
~ Oscar Wilde
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
~ Oscar Wilde
She laughed again. Her teeth showed like white seeds in a scarlet fruit.
~ Oscar Wilde
La humanidad se toma a sí misma demasiado en serio. Es el pecado original del mundo. Si el hombre de las cavernas hubiera sabido reír, la historia habría sido diferente.
~ Oscar Wilde
Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. My God, Harry, how I worship her! He was walking up and down the room as he spoke. Hectic spots of red burned on his cheeks. He was terribly excited.
~ Oscar Wilde
I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
~ Oscar Wilde
If you're going to tell people the truth, make them laugh.
~ Oscar Wilde
Cupids laughed round it as of old.
~ Oscar Wilde
As Ceres drank what she gave her, an insolent, coarse-looking boy strolled up in front of the goddess, burst into laughter and jeered, 'What a greedy female you are!' Deeply insulted, she rapidly threw what was left of her drink in the prattling idiot's face and drenched him in barley mixture.
~ Ovid
She had a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge.
~ p g wodehouse
The contagious sound of women's laughter filled the warm, tidy burrow.
~ P. C. Cast
Cheer up, Crips, and keep smiling. That's the thing to do. If you go through life with a smile on your face, you'll be amazed how many people will come up to you and say 'What the hell are you grinning about? What's so funny?' Make you a lot of new friends.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
I laughed derisively. For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious. I was laughing. Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit. Derisively, I explained.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
I laugh, and it was amazing! I swear I could see my laughter floating around me like puffy things you blow off a dandelion, only instead of being white it was birthday-cake-frosting-blue. wow! Who knew hitting my head and passing out would be so much fun? I wonder if this was what it was like to be high.
~ P.C. Cast
Who knew hitting my head and passing out would be so much fun?
~ P.C. Cast
They're Twin-like, Shaunee said. Hilarious, Erin agreed. Shut up! Aphrodite and Stevie Rae said together, which made the Twins convulse into laughter.
~ P.C. Cast
No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life. Why? he asked, opening both his eyes. Because sometimes it's either laugh or cry. I prefer laugh. How about you?
~ P.C. Cast
Clearly, the Goddess has a sense of humor.
~ P.C. Cast
I say! he said. Are you broke? Nelly laughed. Am I? If dollars were doughnuts, I wouldn't even have the hole in the middle.
~ P.G Wodehouse
When you're alone you don't do much laughing.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
And so the merry party began. It was one of those jolly, happy, bread-crumbling parties where you cough twice before you speak, and then decide not to say it after all.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
She laughed - a bit louder than I could have wished in my frail state of health, but then she is always a woman who tends to bring plaster falling from the ceiling when amused.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Honoria, you see, is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of a welter-weight and a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge. A beastly thing to have to face over the breakfast table. Brainy, moreover. The sort of girl who reduces you to pulp with sixteen sets of tennis and a few rounds of golf and then comes down to dinner as fresh as a daisy, expecting you to take an intelligent interest in Freud.
~ P.G. Wodehouse