Amusement Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image “What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amusement Amusing Desperate Earnest Funny History Humor Taken
“trying to restore some kind of natural balance of humors in the world.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh. At least… — Jonathan Krisel Copy Share Image
Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
“What’s so funny?” I asked, horrified, trying to think of an inconspicuous way to check my breath. “Of everything you’ve done, this is by… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“What we do and what we take seriously can often be so far removed from what it is actually all about that it is… — Richard Templar Copy Share Image
We’ve got to have a little humor in our lives. You had better take seriously that which should be taken seriously but, at the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
It upsets me where you do a take and people go 'that's so funny,' and you think 'I was being serious.' — Tom Bateman Copy Share Image
It's vital to keep a sense of humour when the world seems to have suddenly become a very strange place. — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was his wife who mainly made him laugh, for there are people who can make us laugh even when they don’t intend… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“Now true humor begins when a man ceases to take himself seriously.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning 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
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 just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through… — Amanda McBroom Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all… — Danny McBride Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but also with… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I like these boots," I told Vayl. "Do you think they'd sell them to me cheap? I keep ruining mine." "Since when do you… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
