there is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief.
Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.
I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.
Is it not possible that the ultimate end is gaiety and music and a dance of joy?
None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.
There is nothing more tedious than a constant round of gaiety.
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind. . .
Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.
I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.
Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress
