gaiety quotes

I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
^81  His tribute to the recently deceased actor David Garrick. Lives of the English Poets,'Edmund Smith'.

Ceremony, circus, farce, melodrama, tragedy†nothing else offers all at once the whirl, the excitement, the gaiety, the intrigue and the anguish.

- Arthur M(eier),Jr Schlesinger
  On national political conventions. AThousand Days.