Contagious Laughter Quotes

It's just certain people that I get the giggles with.

Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

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

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it . . . so I wonder what it is and where it comes from, and I wonder what it expends out of your system, so that you have to do it till you're done, like crying in a way, I suppose, except that laughter is much more easily spent.

I like jokes where people don't stop laughing.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.

Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.

It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.