Amused Quotes

200 quotes by 174 authors

The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the… — Henry Watson Fowler
I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article. — James Blunt
I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things,… — Hank Azaria
I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as… — Bret Easton Ellis
Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in detail… — Mary Ann Glendon
Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is… — Henry Adams
There are so many comics about violence. I'm not entertained or amused by violence, and I'd rather not have it in my life. Sex, on… — Dave McKean
I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's… — Black Francis
Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might react… — David Ignatius
At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing. — Nicolas Chamfort
A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will… — Samuel Johnson
Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate his success. What… — Judith Regan
Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a… — James Laver
To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated. — James Atlas
About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it`s sort of both.… — Alex Kingston
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. Bela Lugosi. — Bela Lugosi
Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings. — Robert Genn
I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his… — Henry David Thoreau
To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority… — H. L. Mencken
The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through… — Gerald Stanley Lee

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