Love Quote by Audrey Hepburn

Hepburn frames laughter less like entertainment and more like triage: a quick, humane intervention that restores equilibrium when life gets abrasive. Coming from an actress whose public image was built on elegance and lightness, the line reads as a quiet manifesto for what that lightness was doing on the inside. It is not a plea for jokes; it is a preference for people who can change the weather in a room.

The intent is disarmingly practical. “It cures a multitude of ills” borrows the cadence of old moral language, but the moral is bodily: relief, breath, the unclenching of anxiety. She’s elevating a social skill into a kind of emotional first aid, suggesting that humor is evidence of resilience and attention, not just charm. Laughter becomes a diagnostic: if someone can make you laugh, they’ve noticed you, timed you, understood the texture of your mood.

The subtext is especially telling in that last clause: “the most important thing in a person.” Not talent, beauty, sophistication - the very currencies Hepburn was paid to embody. She flips the hierarchy. In a celebrity ecosystem that rewards surface, she quietly names the trait that makes intimacy possible. It’s also a way of protecting herself: valuing laughter is a socially acceptable way to admit you need gentleness without asking for it directly.

Context matters: Hepburn’s life included wartime deprivation and later humanitarian work. Against that backdrop, laughter reads as survival technology - a small, repeatable act of dignity in the face of suffering, and a criterion for choosing companions who won’t romanticize pain.