Amused Quote by Charles Edward Montague Download Open image “To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.” — Charles Edward Montague ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amused Amused Read Comedy Great Quotation Read Read Great Spring Spring Quotation You
To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations. — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore. — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated. — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
A fine quotation has really no meaning only when one reads without getting any inspiration from it. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living. — Bernard Darwin Copy Share Image
I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning. — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them. — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it. — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
“Each word's evocative value or virtue, its individual power of touching springs in the mind and of initiating visions, becomes a treasure to revel… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations. — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
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… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I have found that the key to being happy — well, one of the keys, anyway — is to be easily amused, — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
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… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
“Well at least your awake," he sighs "You had me worried." "Get your hands away from me." He waves sheathed fingers in front of… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image