William Hazlitt Quotes About Laughter

Quotes about: Laughter

• A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

  William Hazlitt

  Motivational, Happiness, Smile

• Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Motivational, Laughter

  Lectures on the English Comic Writers "On Wit and Humor" (1818)

• Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

  William Hazlitt

  Happiness, Beauty, Laughter

  William Hazlitt, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles Lamb (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life”, p.161

• Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.

  William Hazlitt

  Teacher, Laughter, Opportunity

  William Hazlitt (2004). “On the Pleasure of Hating”, p.31, Penguin UK

• Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas had time to reconcile its feelings to the change in circumstances: while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere sur prise or contrast (in the absence of any more serious emotion), before it has time to reconcile its belief to contradictory appearances.

  William Hazlitt

  Laughter, Feelings, Mind

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Lectures on the English Comic Writers”, p.2

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