Amusing Quote by Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully Download Open image “The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.” — Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amusing English Heavy Funny Hearted Heavy Heavy heart Heavy hearted Way Way Amusing
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
What I see as specially English is the charm - everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And I love… — Danielle de Niese Copy Share Image
The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange. — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners. — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country. — Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I was reading Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'. It's one of my favourites. — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling. — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns. — Anonymous 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
It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the… — Stephen D. Cox Copy Share Image
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