Cheerfulness

Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

The white, snowy cloths, the rich window-hangings, the warm tints of the walls, the sparkle of the fire in the steel grate, gave the room an air of elegance and cheerfulness.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

When it comes to Christmas I'm a bit of a Grinch - I can't stand all the present giving and compulsory cheerfulness.

There we experienced the incredible humanity of the nation, giving us everything, with amazing cheerfulness; lodging, fire, meat, clothes, provisions for our way home.

“Now, it is very remarkable that this is so extensively overlooked,” continued the Time Traveller, with a slight accession of cheerfulness. “Really this is what is meant by the Fourth Dimension, though some people who talk about the Fourth Dimension do not know they mean it. It is only another way of looking at Time. There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it. But some foolish people have got hold of the wrong side of that idea. You have all heard what they have to say about this Fourth Dimension?”

After a while, at the second bottle perhaps, cheerfulness will supervene, then mirth and garrulity, ending, as the night closes round, with wordy contention and a general brawl.

But I thought of her patience and cheerfulness through the countless discomforts and dangers of the voyage, and knew that the praise was hers.

Cheerfulness is absent from his character.