Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect."
Joining In quotes
Joining In
14 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Octavia Butler
Author, Novelist
"Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested."
Marcel Proust
Novelist
"People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it."
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