William Shakespeare Quotes About Laughter

• The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

  William Shakespeare

  Smile, Encouraging, Broken Heart

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. 208

• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Happiness, Being Happy

  1596-7 Graziano toAntonio.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.1, l.79-80.

• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughter, Heart, Wine

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.315

• Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?) (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems”, p.345

• The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughter, Laughing, You Like It

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 2, l. [17]

• O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Sweet, Laughter

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

• To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughter, Moving, Agony

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1633, BookCaps Study Guides

• Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughter, Mistress, Mirth

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

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