Amuse Quotes

161 Amuse quotes by 141 unique authors

I would say that among my many huge emotional miscalculations was my taking a film career for granted. It is the most awesome privilege to… — Robert Downey, Jr.
I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could play an art… — Walter Matthau
How could you think of such awful things? liberal critics always ask. How else could I possibly amuse myself? I always wonder. — John Waters
We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children… — Lynn Johnston
I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me. — John Green
But we made our own fun, mostly. I recall a time, many years later, when American children seemed unable to amuse themselves without a fortune… — Maureen Johnson
In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing… — Peter Gallagher
A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead. — Ernest Bevin
The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me.' 'Amuse me.' 'Touch my sympathies.' 'Make me sad.' 'Make me… — Guy de Maupassant
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life. — Walter Scott
I'm tired of advertising! I'm looking for new solutions that make people laugh and amuse. Italian creativity is too narrow, it still hasn't overcome the… — Renzo Rosso
Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will… — Samuel Johnson
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally… — Giambattista Vico
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly… — William Hazlitt
If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to… — Gerald Durrell
Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him… — Al Smith
With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus… — Barbara Kingsolver
It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed,… — Hannah More
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder,… — Alexander Pope
Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to continually hold up… — Unknown Author

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