Amusing Quotes

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

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

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.

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

I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

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

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.

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.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

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.

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.

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.

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

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.

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