"To be amused by what you read -……" — Charles Edward Montague
"To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations."
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10 Quotes by Charles Edward Montague
Charles Edward Montague has 10 quotes on this site.
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War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you…
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Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping…
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To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and…
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A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.
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Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because…
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There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who…
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To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
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The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his…
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More Amused Quotes
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree…
— Honore de Balzac
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience,…
— Giacomo Casanova
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they…
— Leonard Cohen
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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this…
— H.G. Wells
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse…
— Aubrey Beardsley
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Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such…
— Granville Penn
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The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be…
— Larry Niven
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...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one…
— Arthur Rubinstein
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The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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