Leigh Hunt Quotes

I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I'm laughing.

It's so important, people laughing.

Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

I love to laugh and well, who doesn't?

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

I like laughter around me.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every great clown has been very near to tragedy.

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

Sometimes I just want to laugh.

There is no life without laughs for me.

Audience laughter, when it's deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous.

To me, if something makes you laugh, that's heart-warming. It doesn't necessarily have to be friendly; it might just be the weirdest thing ever. Laughing makes me feel better.

Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our own cold solitude. Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry. That's why I tell you yet again, and you want to keep in mind: Boccaccio doesn't understand love. Love can never be laughable. Love has nothing in common with laughter.

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.