Amused Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die…

— Nicolas Chamfort

Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of…

— Edmund Burke

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.

— Sophocles

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The whole attitude of 'man against the world', of man as a 'world-negating' principle, of a man as the measure of the value of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

— James Carlos Blake

Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application…

— Man Ray

It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they…

— Charles Grandison Finney

A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

— Samuel Butler