#merriment

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. ↗

— George Adam Smith

#conspiracy #contrivance #conversation #diversion #ends

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#among #audience #author #business #cheering

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#damn #executives #great #measured #men

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#merriment #more #nothing #scheme #than

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances. ↗

— William Powell

#cultivate #few #friends #merriment #mob

Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#cheerfulness #humor #merriment #optimism #pleasantness

Without the door let sorrow lie, And if for cold it hap to die, We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie, And evermore be merry. ↗

— George Wither

#humor #merriment #wassail #humor

These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#merriment #tears #war #men

An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married. ↗

— Billie Burke

#always #aside #audience #because #cannot

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go. ↗

— Frank Leslie

#as far as #care #childhood #far #freedom