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Quotes About Merriment

Come, landlord, fill a flowing bowl, until it does run over; To-night we all will merry be, to-morrow we'll get sober.
~ Popular song, c.1700s
Honk, honk!
~ Harpo Marx
Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
~ Hattie McDaniel
Like a kettle boiling over, the room foamed with laughter.
~ Heather Vogel Frederick
Tee hee torture!
~ Lemony Snicket
Hup hup ha ha hammy hee hee!
~ Lemony Snicket
Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends.
~ James Thurber
I'm a sucker for a man who giggles—not a high-pitched serial-killer sort of giggle, but a lighthearted laugh.
~ Jancee Dunn
I am excessively diverted.
~ Jane Austen
Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
~ Jane Austen
What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
~ Jane Austen
One can never have too large a party.
~ Jane Austen
I sincerely hope your Christmas...may abound in the gaieties which the season generally brings…
~ Jane Austen
I dearly love a laugh.
~ Jane Austen
On one side was a table occupied by some chattering girls, cutting up silk and gold paper; and on the other were tressels and trays, bending under the weight of brawn and cold pies, where riotous boys were holding high revel; the whole completed by a roaring Christmas fire, which seemed determined to be heard, in spite of all the noise of the others.
~ Jane Austen
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
But the forgiveness of guilt, the heavenly indulgence, does away with the heart's fear and timidity before God; it makes the conscience lighthearted and merry inwardly13 and reconciles a person with God.
~ Timothy J. Wengert
I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.
~ TobyMac
They were both good friends and heavy drinkers, a combination hard to beat.
~ Oscar Zeta Acosta
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
Well, ha-jolly-ha to YOU, young Stiffie-- with knobs on!
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I ate cheese gravely.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
~ Walter Raleigh