Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Laughter

Quotes about: Laughter

• The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Dog, Laughter, Wind

  Oliver Goldsmith (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.61

• The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Laughter, Laughing, Mind

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 121.

• The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Laughter, Laughing, Way

• Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Morning, Laughter, Writing

  Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted VILLage”

• The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

• The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Laughter, Malicious, Sneer

  Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.133

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