Laughing

Famous quotes containing the word laughing:

    Test every work of intellect or faith
    And everything that your own hands have wrought,
    And call those works extravagance of breath
    That are not suited for such men as come
    Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    I cannot be a materialist—but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery—such suffering, such dreadful suffering—and shall the short years of Christ’s mission atone for it all?
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)