In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In England, you laugh at yourselves; in France, we laugh at others.
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and please them, you're too resentful to do it.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
It's easy to laugh at etiquette, but in a hundred years, our children's grandchildren will almost certainly be laughing at us.
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh.
The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.
I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
Laughter drives shouting away.
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