"Words make love on the page like flies……" — Charles Simic

More Bemused Quotes

This quote is filed under Bemused Quotes, one of 18 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul… — Alexander Pope
• The only difference between us is that I am aware of my natural state, while you are bemused.... We discover… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a… — Richard Lindzen
• Walking back from the convention site I chatted with a normal Bostonian for several blocks -- who must have identified… — Ann Coulter
• We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material… — R. D. Laing
• 'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?' — Sarah Dessen
• Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?' — Dennis Lehane
• "You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed… — Stephen King
• A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and… — David Chalmers
• I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?' There were so many… — Sarah Dessen
• Ryan stared at me as I pulled my phone out to see who was calling at this late hour. “You… — Diana Rowland
• We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively. — Julia Child

See all 18 Bemused Quotes »