Amuse-bouche Quotes

Let us not teach them, but amuse them. — Debasish Mridha

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises. — Ken Thompson

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse — Benjamin Disraeli

Leadership THE 5 RULES Helpfulness Understanding Mingle Amuse Nurture — Robin S. Sharma

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. — Gustave Flaubert

I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves. — Ira Glass

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors. — G.K. Chesterton

They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country.
[Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.] — Jean Froissart

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me. — John Malkovich

Pas encore. Qa m'amuse."
"Really, Poirot!"
"Yes, my friend. I grow old and childish, do I not? — Agatha Christie

Light reading (by this, I mean books of little importance) may amuse for the moment, but leaves nothing solid behind. — Ron Chernow

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds? — Robert Hughes

To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all! — Oscar Wilde

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited. — Cassandra Clare

I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me. — Alexandre Dumas

Tacos."
"Tacos?" I echoed.
This seemed to amuse him. "Tomatoes, lettuce, cheese."
"I know what a taco is! — Becca Fitzpatrick

The English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them. — M. E. W. Sherwood

Detective stories are mostly bunkum ... But they amuse people ... And they're useful sometimes. — Agatha Christie

I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own. — Cassandra Clare

Ah, I remember now why you ceased to amuse, Myrnin. You use honesy like a club. — Rachel Caine

Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-like-to-be-left-alone-to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts — P.G. Wodehouse

To see Charles, the original lone wolf, caught with a foot in the trap of amor
this will amuse me for a while longer, I think. — Patricia Briggs

I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me. — John Green

For man always looked to hire a fool to amuse him without knowing he was one all along. — Hanna Abi Akl

Charm, amuse, inspire, tempt, overwhelm, dazzle. Will you earn reward? (195) — Arthur Phillips

Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them. — Carl Bernstein

I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain. — Kevin Wilson

Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy. — H. P. Blavatsky

The Queen Elizabeth II provides vast amounts of entertainment for an age that has forgotten how to amuse itself unaided. — Hans Koning

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. — Evelyn Waugh

You might be a redneck if you can amuse yourself for more than an hour with a fly swatter. — Jeff Foxworthy

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A slave will amuse himself in his dungeon; a free man must file through his chains and dig through his prison-walls before he can frolic. — George MacDonald

The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species. — Kim Askew

I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people. — Napoleon Bonaparte

And her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform. — Thomas Jefferson

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life. — George Bernard Shaw

I was not born to amuse the Tsars. — Alexander Pushkin

I don't live to amuse you, you know."
"One, are you sure? Because you do. And two, we don't make fun of you. Very much. Anymore. And three ... — Rainbow Rowell

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread. — Hannah More

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. — Marguerite Gardiner

To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Fashion and decor should amuse you and your friends. — Lauren Santo Domingo

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women. — Gertrude Atherton

The gods are capricious, and I was about to amuse them. And Alfred was right. I was a fool. — Bernard Cornwell

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. — Helmut Newton

People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me. — Jeaniene Frost

Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees? — William Least Heat-Moon

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection. — Man Ray

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world. — Isaac Asimov

I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn. — Gilbert Harding

Do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean. — Jack Kerouac

You are welcome to torture me to death for your amusement, only allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style. — Emily Bronte

Ceilings weren't put on rooms to amuse people. — Haruki Murakami

It's your body, use it.. amuse it..because one day, you're gonna lose it! — Jeff Hardy

Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything. — Allen Klein

But then such a book as this is not meant to amuse. — Richard Wagner

Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job. — Paul Leautaud

Invite them back if you'd like," she called after him. "There's plenty." She was four courses upset and considering an amuse-bouche. — Louise Penny

Sylvia, on the other hand, looks like she eats stress as an amuse-bouche and turns problems into cocktails. — Susan Juby

I have severe ADD, and I'm constantly looking to amuse myself. — Chelsea Handler

The purpose of art is to console and amuse - myself, and, I hope, others. — Ludwig Bemelmans

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours
ambition is the serious business of life. — Walter Scott

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children — L. Frank Baum

All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself. — W. H. Auden

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Happy are those who are satisfied by life, who amuse themselves, who are content. — Michel Houellebecq

How could you think of such awful things? liberal critics always ask. How else could I possibly amuse myself? I always wonder. — John Waters

Amuse-bouches are an opportunity to push boundaries. — Daniel Humm

Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion!
I write to make people anxious and miserable and to
worsen their indigestion. — Wendy Cope

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself. — Frederic William Farrar

My thoughts amuse me. — Laurie Faria Stolarz

Why is life so hard?"
"Because god is a spoilt child and this world is just a game he plays to amuse himself. — Anna McPartlin

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead. — Ernest Bevin

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself — Aristotle.

Sancho tried to amuse him and cheer him up by chatting to him, and said, among other things, what is recorded in the next chapter. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. — George Henry Lewes

You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children] — Dr. Seuss

It's your body, use it...amuse it...'cos one day, you're gonna lose it! — Jeff Hardy

If people thought more, we'd all have less to amuse us. — Amy Dickinson

I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair. — Hillary Clinton

The main obligation is to amuse yourself. — S.J Perelman

There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency. — Donald Knuth

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father. — Vaughn Monroe

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
— Helen Gurley Brown

People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them. — Samuel Johnson

In this way Fate outplayed the efforts of mortals-simply to amuse itself, one might think. — Erik Valeur

Oh shit, you had to be bloody careful when you invoked God; He could amuse Himself by granting what you'd prayed for ... — Ariana Franklin

I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities. — Ian Watson

No way, that would kill my diet for the week. I don't know how you can stand to eat so unhealthy, Quinn.
Just consider it an amuse-biatch. — Steph Campbell

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. — E.W. Howe