Amused Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amused Amusement Long Nations
“A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs” — Sherry Marie Gallagher Copy Share Image
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
... a nation without humor is not only sad but dangerous. — Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Copy Share Image
No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As long as you can laugh at yourself you will never cease to be amused. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
Comedy, if it's done well, can reflect the mood of a nation. It can be a mirror to who we are, what we believe… — Brad Stine Copy Share Image
A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly joking around. — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
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