Quotes of: Amusement Keyword

I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me.

Anita Brookner

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

Vaughn Monroe

Amusement if one of humankind's strongest motivational forces.

Islands of Truth: A Mathematical Mystery Cruise

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

H. L. Mencken

Ennui had more distractions far more amusing than the automatons of a watchmaker in Mühlenberg.

Steven Millhauser

Cavorting around fantasy-style environments with a rampaging horde of sycophantic psychos is inherently amusing.

Rhianna Pratchett

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

Mae West

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Nicolas Chamfort

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

Maggie Smith

humor is a spiritual journey to see the world in a unique, amusing way.

Ed Toolis

I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.

Ira Glass

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

George MacDonald

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Joshua Reynolds

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Henry Adams

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Arnold Bennett

When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

Rory Bremner

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

Armistead Maupin

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire

Hey, you’re not supposed to find our magnificent organs amusing.

Susie's Choice

I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.

Jim Broadbent