Amuse Quotes

161 quotes by 141 authors

I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn. — Gilbert Harding
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how… — Holbrook Jackson
Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees? — William Least Heat-Moon
The purpose of art is to console and amuseâ€”myself, and, I hope, others. — Ludwig Bemelmans
Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery. — Mercy Otis Warren
She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot… — Louise Fletcher
Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them. — Carl Bernstein
It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father. — Vaughn Monroe
I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me. — John Malkovich
It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their… — George Jean Nathan
My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot… — Joseph Howe
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. — George Henry Lewes
I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be… — W. Somerset Maugham
Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I… — Winston Churchill
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of… — Oscar Wilde
There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse — Benjamin Disraeli
I have changed nothing, my style of play is still that of a child. I know that above all it is my job and that… — Lionel Messi
Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to… — Lee Kuan Yew
It's your body, use it.. amuse it..because one day, you're gonna lose it! — Jeff Hardy
Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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