A Quote by Caitlin Thomas

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

Caitlin Thomas

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Gaiety Gay Grief

Quote Author

Caitlin Thomas
Poet
December 8, 1913 - July 31, 1994

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

When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

Baroness Orczy

Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.

Stanislaw I Leszczynski

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

Anatole France

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

Joseph Stalin

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

Robert Louis Stevenson

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

Madame de Stael

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

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There is nothing more tedious than a constant round of gaiety.

Margery Sharp

The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

Baroness Orczy

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

Michel de Montaigne

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.