Laughing

Famous quotes containing the word laughing:

“Give her a little grace,
What if a laughing eye
Have looked into your face?
It is about to die.”
—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)

“He was laughing when your father found him. He died laughing—in a strait-jacket.”
—John L. Balderston (1899–1954)