I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them!
~
Wuthering Heights
by
Emily Bronte
Laughter is poison to fear.
~
A Game of Thrones
by
George R. R. Martin
"Tha'll make him laugh an' there's nowt as good for ill folk as laughin' is. Mother says she believes as half a hour's good laugh every mornin' 'ud cure a chap as was makin' ready for typhus fever."
~
The Secret Garden
by
Frances Hodgson Burnett
"When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding."
~
Anne of the Island
by
Lucy Maud Montgomery
"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."
~
Pride and Prejudice
by
Jane Austen
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."
~
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by
Oscar Wilde
"At lovers' perjuries,
They say Jove laughs."
~
Romeo and Juliet
by
William Shakespeare
Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.
~
Cleopatra
by
H. Rider Haggard
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all.
~
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
by
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
~
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by
Anne Bronte