Amusing Quotes · Page 3

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

— Evelyn Waugh

“It was almost unthinkable. Yet I was thinking it.”

— Christina Baehr

I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.

— Ken Dodd

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

— Virginia Woolf

The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.

— Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully

I'm amusing and crazy on Twitter. I talk about important things, stupid things.

— Cher

The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing.

— Donald Rumsfeld

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

— Charles Baudelaire

“Pain and humiliation is always amusing when it happens to someone else.”

— Eileen Cook

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

— Edna Ferber

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

— Anonymous

I think Lilyan (Tashman) is one of the most amusing people I know but I believe she dresses in too flamboyant a…

— Hedda Hopper

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means…

— Joseph Campbell

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

— Dick Cavett

It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“You think you are a lot funnier than you are, you know,” he replied, not looking away from the cannon. “I am…

— Lauren James

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

— Grace Slick

What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed.…

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take…

— Leo Tolstoy

Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone…

— Marlon Brando

[Jem] 'It will help you sleep.' 'All I’ve been doing is sleeping!' [Tessa] 'And very amusing it is to watch, said Jem.…

— Cassandra Clare

I found my friends very amusing the first time because they are funny and amusing. They really are because they're people who've…

— Duncan Roy

What people really want is not to make something funny, but to make something amusing - which, in many ways, is the…

— Christian Finnegan

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them ... They achieve it. They do not achieve it…

— John W. Gardner

“He slammed the door shut in Ian's face, the lock clicking into place. Ian hit it again with his fist before roaring,…

— Rose Wynters

It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distate for the more solemn services…

— Samuel I. Prime

The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage…

— John Baldessari

If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though…

— Rosellen Brown

“Think of the most fussy science teacher you ever had. The one who docked your grade if the sixth decimal place in…

— Sam Kean

“Before We Begin Is Your Bug A nice clean original car that looks almost like it left the showroom yesterday? P.S. All…

— Christina Engela

Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it "international month," and amusing Moses and his big sister,…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable…

— Walt Disney

I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to…

— Peter Greenaway

You live but once; you might as well be amusing.

— Coco Chanel

“Defiance was only amusing when the stakes were low.”

— Courtney Milan

I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.

— Rowan Atkinson

“People always find it amusing when they see a friend suffering, Stig thought.”

— John Flanagan

I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.

— Cary Grant

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

— Donald Fagen

“Vanity, thy name is crow. Which is funny because c-r-o-w is also how you spell kleptomaniac.”

— Hailey Edwards