Laughing Quotes - Page 12

• Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.

  William Shakespeare

  Favour, Important Hamlet, Paint

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]

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• Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, People, Acting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Laugh now, cry later.

  Erma Bombeck

  Laughter, Cry

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• The ratman froze, staring at me. "Why are you laughing?" His voice held just a hint of unease. Good. I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You've got to admit that's funny.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Voice, Vampire, Hints

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.96, Penguin

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• Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. Some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. He had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. But if you just laughed in a saloon, or at a social, the laugh didn't reach deep.

  Larry McMurtry

  Fate, Yankees, Rest Of Life

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• It’s harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again for an hour. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I want to be picked or rocked to sleep in someone’s arms, and carried up to be just one more time. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts.

  Robert Fulghum

  Sleep, Thinking, Years

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• They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him.

  Roberto Bolano

  Study, Picks

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• If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

  Markus Zusak

  Laughter, Knowing, Feels

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.349, RH Childrens Books

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• The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said, laughing, “stop it. Do you know I caught him outside growling at the snapdragons?

  Alice Sebold

  Mother, Father, Mouths

  Alice Sebold (2002). “The Lovely Bones”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man, the animal, the hungry, insatiable lover. No woman has ever granted me all the privileges I need - and you, why you sing out so blithely, so boldly, with a laugh even - yes, you invite me to go ahead, be myself, benture anything. I adore you for that. That is where you are truly regal, a woman extraordinary. What a woman you are! I laugh to myself now when I think of you. I have no fear of your femaleness.

  Henry Miller

  Artist, Animal, Men

  Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (1989). “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Laugh it up, asshole. But she who laughs last laughs longest, and I intend to belly roll tonight ~Tabitha

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Tonight, Lasts, Belly

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Seize The Night”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc. - he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen on in the wild, and didn't really care to.

  John Green

  Etc, Bears, Tampons

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.59, Penguin

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• No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Cake, Would Be, Pieces

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)

  Jack London

  Futility Of Life, Effort, Savages

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• But she had that laugh, and the sound of it was so beautiful that when you heard it, it was as if your eyes saw her through your ears and she was transformed.

  Diane Setterfield

  Beautiful, Eye, Sound

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Max: "Fang! This is a huge break! Of course we should go check it out!" Fang: "But we're grounded." Max and Fang: (stare at each other for a second and burst out laughing)

  James Patterson

  Max, Break, Checks

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• Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character) I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there are those who suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. I would be friend of all--- the foe, the friendless; I would be giving, and forget the gift; I would be humble, for I know my weakness; I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift.

  John C. Maxwell

  Strong, Humble, Character

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.120, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot.

  John Green

  Girl, Wise, Gay

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• [I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

  Homer

  Wine, Men, Wisest Man

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.481, Penguin

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• Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Men, Play

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.810, GENERAL PRESS

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• God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death...is the true measure of the Divine within us.

  Alan Brennert

  Hurt, Giving Up, Pain

  Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i”, p.307, Macmillan

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• Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were no substitute for love itself. They couldn't kiss her like Meggie, they couldn't hug her like Resa, they couldn't laugh like Mortimer. Poor books, poor Elinor.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Kissing, Feelings

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.114, Scholastic Inc.

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• Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being bored out of their skulls and feeling depressed, then being consoled by some little thing like watching the patterns the light makes through the leaves of trees, casting shadows on the sidewalks. I remember the line from that poem now. Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

  Kim Addonizio

  Beautiful, Baby, Falling In Love

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• The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.

  Walker Percy

  Suicide, Morning, Past

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart.

  Jodi Picoult

  Break Up, Breakup, Taken

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