Amusing Quotes

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire

Nature, Art, While

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
Mae West

Another, Stage, Enjoyed

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
H. L. Mencken

Democracy, Enjoy, Confess

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle

Talk, While, Soon

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
Orson Welles

Money, Real, Problem

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
Benjamin Disraeli

Long, Tell, Stories

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
J. K. Rowling

Parents, College, Both

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Michel de Montaigne

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
James Anthony Froude

Death, Wild, Fellow

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.
P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Children, Friends

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Laurence Sterne

Change, Nothing, Ideas

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
Moliere

Men, Comedy, Duty

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.
Marilyn vos Savant

Life, Good, Since

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire

Work, Everything, Boring

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.
William Shatner

Saying, Thinking, Everybody

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire

Work, Everything, Boring

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
Charles Baudelaire

Talk, Himself, Knows

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
Nicolas Chamfort

Love, Marriage, History

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
David Bailey

Fashion, Liked, Witty

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.
Maggie Smith

Funny, Happy, Find

Now I can broadcast to an audience of several million people on the 'Today' programme. I can talk about the day's news. But on radio, believe it or not, we have notes and scripts. And while we might ad lib the odd wryly amusing asides, they come at the frequency of a suburban bus. About one every 90 minutes.
Evan Davis

Today, Talk, While

I don't do emoticons unless I'm making a big deal out of them. I'll type out, 'This is so amusing it makes me want to grin in pixels.' And then do it.
Sloane Crosley

Big, Makes, Making

I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.
Sloane Crosley

Work, Family, Pretty

Everyone has been in a social situation where you say something and it goes unnoticed, then someone else says the same thing and everyone laughs a lot. You learn how to be more creative and whacky and amusing.
Sloane Crosley

Someone, Same, Else

I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.
Eric Bana

Someone, Laugh, Idea

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.
Josephine Baker

Good, Beautiful, Luck

I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
Rowan Atkinson

Good, Mean, Friends

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
Rowan Atkinson

Funny, Happen, Before

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
Arnold Bennett

Money, Ingenuity, Profitable

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
Al Yankovic

Help, Down, Try

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