Amusing Quotes

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.

I die pretty much every year. I find it amusing.

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.

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 guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

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.

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.

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.