Amusing Quotes

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.

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

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

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

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 left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.

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

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

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

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 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.

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

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

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.

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

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.

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.