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Quotes About Laugh

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!
~ Joanna Baillie
I think my vision's blurred, he murmurred. SHe responded with a hesitant laugh. If that's all that happened, you're a heck of a better kisser than I am. I can't stand up. I'm afraid to touch you. We might go up in flames. She sighed. They story of my life...
~ Christine Feehan
She drew her knees up and dropped her chin on the top of them, smiling at him. Watching him. Caressing him with soft eyes. You're going to go out there and act all tough, aren't you? That's my intention, yes. He slipped a knife into his boots. It took discipline to keep his face pure stone when she made him want to laugh. -Lexi & Gavriil
~ Christine Feehan
You need to remember how to play, to laugh. You need to learn to like yourself more." The hard edges of his mouth softened, curved. "You sound like the priest." "I hope you confessed that you took advantage of me," she teased.
~ Christine Feehan
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things…one of the beginnings of the human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority, its indispensable
~ Christopher Hitchens
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion.
~ Umberto Eco
Claude, saddened and discouraged in his human affections, by all this, had flung himself eagerly into the arms of learning, that sister which, at least does not laugh in your face, and which always pays you, though in money that is sometimes a little hollow, for the attention which you have paid to her.
~ Victor Hugo
It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.
~ la bruyere jean de
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
He blushed, abashed. "I'm sorry." "I'm going to impose a fine on apologies," she said. "I didn't like to mention it last night, but today is your new beginning. Ten silver every time you say you're sorry." Lazlo laughed, and had to bite his tongue before apologizing for apologizing. "It was trained into me," he said. "I'm helpless.
~ Laini Taylor
Zelda was winter's best dame: pale and dark with a shimmer of Christmas in her eye, a flash of New Year's in her laugh.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
And, when the whim changes, it is most easy and delightfully disconcerting to play with the respectable and cowardly bourgeois fetishes and to laugh and epigram at the flitting god-ghosts and the debaucheries and follies of wisdom.
~ Jack London
A cocktail or two, or several, I found, cheered me up for the foolishness of foolish people. A cocktail, or several, before dinner, enabled me to laugh whole-heartedly at things which had long since ceased being laughable. The cocktail was a prod, a spur, a kick, to my jaded mind and bored spirits.
~ Jack London
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.
~ Steve Coogan
We are fools in the stream of time, in moments of calm, we will laugh about ourselves.
~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann
While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.
~ Rita Mae Brown
I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.
~ Greg Boyle
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
~ Marquis de Sade
One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.
~ Francois Rabelais
Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.
~ Brock Yates
My grandfather was a giant of a man ... When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky.
~ Eth Clifford
You have potential. I'm here to bring that out. Potential as what? As a human being. You have all the basic ingredients. You're really likable, when you put your mind to it. You make people laugh, when you can be bothered, and you're kind, and when you decide you like someone then that person feels as though she's the center of the whole world, and that's a very sexy feeling. It's just that most of the time you can't be bothered.
~ Nick Hornby
Tyler studied him over his coffee. From what I've seen so far you're not much of a time-waster. And you're not so bad, for a suit. With a half-laugh, David lifted his own coffee. Steam from it rose and merged with the mist. Coming from you, that's a hell of a kudo. Damn right.
~ Nora Roberts
Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950's. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
~ Chuck Palahniuk