(84 quotes found)
“We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform”
Thomas Jefferson
“Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity”
Arnold Bennett
“There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing Of old random jottings set down in a blank book You've unearthed from a drawer as you looked for your bank book”
Amy Lowell
“We are not amused.”
Elizabeth II
“What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once”
Virginia Woolf
“Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.”
Jane Austen
“Small things amuse small minds.”
Doris Lessing
“The finest amusements are the most pointless ones”
Jacques Chardonne
“Our investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to knowledge”
Will Rogers
“so it was charming and amusing.”
Alanis Morissette
