(81 quotes found)
“We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform”
Thomas Jefferson
“We are not amused.”
Elizabeth II
“Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity”
Arnold Bennett
“It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption”
James Thurber
“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
“I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage, but not so amusing as Broadway.”
Mae West
“What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once”
Virginia Woolf
“The finest amusements are the most pointless ones”
Jacques Chardonne
“Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement”
Oliver Goldsmith