Gaiety

Famous quotes containing the word gaiety:

    We knew how to order. Just the dash
    Necessary. The length of gaiety in good taste.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    Natives of poverty, children of malheur,
    The gaiety of language is our seigneur.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
    —Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)