Merriment

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
George Adam Smith
People
Conversation
Merriment
Public
Trade
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
William Powell
Friends
Merriment
Mob
Quiet
Solitude
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
Sinclair Lewis
Men
Merriment
Smiles
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
David Herbert Lawrence
Business
Actor
Hate
Merriment
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Samuel Johnson
Merriment
Nothing
An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.
Billie Burke
Work
Career
Emotions
Merriment
Public
Tears
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