Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.

Who can refute a sneer?

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

It is horrid to smirk.

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.

He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.

I just don't have a tolerance for people being fake, I don't think. Maybe especially when I think they have bad intentions.

I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

Nobody likes me,” he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. “Can’t imagine why,” Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough, which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at subterfuge when you consider the fact that I didn’t have any lungs.

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity.

I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.

Little chickie la la, isn’t dumb enough to fall for that, guys. (Tabitha)

The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.

I scorn you, scurvy companion.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.

I am a comedian and you guys know whatever I say, I don't mean any of it.

And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.

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

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.