Jollity Quotes

I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. (Samuel Johnson)
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune. View quote
François Rabelais
This unasked-for jollity in the middle of an English afternoon left Sir Henry shivering with a red passion, his face a crumpled tissue on which a lobster might well have wiped its bottom. View quote
Vivian Stanshall
Children are made to learn bits of Shakespeare by heart, with the result that ever after they associate him with pedantic boredom. If they could meet him in the flesh, full of jollity and ale, they would be astonished, and if they had never heard of him before they might be led by his jollity to see what he had written. But if at school they had been inoculated against him, they will never be able to enjoy him. The same sort of thing applies to music lessons. Human beings have certain capacities for spontaneous enjoyment, but moralists and pedants possess themselves of the apparatus of these enjoyments, and having extracted what they consider the poison of pleasure they leave them dreary and dismal and devoid of everything that gives them value. Shakespeare did not write with a view to boring school-children; he wrote with a view to delighting his audiences. If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathèd smiles. View quote
John Milton
I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life. View quote
Marcus Brigstocke
Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil so shalt thou always live jollity for a good conscience is a continual Christmas. View quote
Benjamin Franklin