Amused Quotes

200 quotes by 177 authors

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves. — Honore de Balzac
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by… — W. E. B. Du Bois
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools. — Giacomo Casanova
I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life. — Leonard Cohen
Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges… — H.G. Wells
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions… — Mary Wortley Montagu
To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations. — Charles Edward Montague
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must… — Benjamin Franklin
I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has… — Aubrey Beardsley
Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led to… — Granville Penn
The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all… — Larry Niven
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine… — Arthur Rubinstein
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I keep myself amused and others confused — Benedict Cumberbatch
And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add up… — Roger Ebert
Once you have the View, although the delusory perceptions of samsara may arise in your mind, you will be like the sky; when a rainbow… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving and constructing, had never appeared… — Stephen Crane
I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager… — Harry Houdini
People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays. — Louisa May Alcott

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