A Quote by Anatole France

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Anatole France

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Anatole France
French - Novelist
April 16, 1844 - October 12, 1924

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

Is it not possible that the ultimate end is gaiety and music and a dance of joy?

James Stephens

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

James F. Cooper

there is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief.

Caitlin Thomas

You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.

Dorothy Draper

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

Josh Billings

I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back.

Carolyn Kizer

One of the hardest things I've encountered whilst working on 'Pippin' is the consistent irony, as a reflection from the core material of the show, within my own life.

Matthew James Thomas

Wisdom comes from reflection.

Deborah Day

The soul is love, joy. Joy. Peace. Wisdom.

Ram Dass

This is what the establishment is scared of: Of joy, the sense of humour, of irony.

Beppe Grillo

An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.

C. S. Lewis

No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.

Seneca the Younger

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

Baltasar Gracian

None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.

Gaston Leroux

Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.

Samuel Johnson

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