Jolly Quotes

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. (George Carlin)
Nose, nose, jolly red nose, And who gave thee this jolly red nose . . . Nutmegs and ginger, cinnamon and cloves, And they gave me this jolly red nose. View quote
Francis Beaumont
I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Aren't family squabbles jolly fun? Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
A jolly place,' said he, 'in times of old But something ails it now the spot is cursed. View quote
William Wordsworth
Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and thoroughly worth living. View quote
Terry Pratchett
So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette. View quote
Geoffrey Chaucer
We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt. View quote
Ogden Nash
I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I've never tasted it. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
There are two things you need for a jolly good hymn. The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or sentiment of the worshipper. The second-and perhaps even more important-is a good tune ... with a simple popular melody. (John Betjeman)
Three jolly huntsmen, In coats of red, Rode their horses Up to bed. View quote
Walter de la Mare
Also, chubby people can never truly pull off ethereal the same way skinny people can never be jolly. View quote
Mindy Kaling
We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it. View quote
Ngaio Marsh
Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be! Jack Skellington: *No.* [the Mayor switches to his upset face] Jack Skellington: How *jolly*! Mayor: Oh. How *jolly* our Christmas will be. View quote
Tim Burton
They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives. View quote
Robert Baden-Powell
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. View quote
E. V. Lucas
They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh! View quote
Louise Jameson
A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring. View quote
Mary Wesley
The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration. (Sally Quinn)
If you are looking for a story about cheerful youngsters spending a jolly time at boarding school, look elsewhere. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent and resourceful children, and you might expect that they would do very well at school. Don't. For the Baudelaires, school turns out to be another miserable episode in their unlucky lives. View quote
Daniel Handler
Spanking Jack was so comely, so pleasant, so jolly, Though winds blew great guns, still he 'd whistle and sing; Jack loved his friend, and was true to his Molly, And if honour gives greatness, was great as a king. View quote
Charles Dibdin
Lord Peter Wimsey: She has a sense of humor... and brains... life wouldn't be dull. One would wake up, and there would be a whole day full of jolly things to do. And then we would come home and go to bed... and that would be jolly too. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
A good jolly is worth what you pay for it. View quote
George Ade