The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.
It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.
I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.'
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.