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

To criticise something imperfect is always amusing, and maybe profitable in those cases where the imperfections can be remedies. — Aldous Huxley

As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly! — Georgette Heyer

The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion. — Douglas Adams

How predictable, how perfectly average, how amusing. — Gillian Flynn

Three a.m. in downtown Caldwell, New York, gave you just enough obstacles to keep shit amusing. — J.R. Ward

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time. — P. J. O'Rourke

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens. — Max Barry

An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives. — Karen Abbott

The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice. — Steve Aylett

The kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next. — Anne Enright

Go, prick thy face and over-red thy fear,
Thou lily-livered boy. — William Shakespeare

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

The Reacher brothers' need for caffeine makes heroin addiction look like an amusing little take-it-or-leave-it sideline. — Lee Child

Long story short: I don't know shit about whatever dancing monkey of the moment is amusing the plebes. — Antonio Garcia Martinez

I don't believe in our politics, our way of thinking, believing, amusing ourselves; I don't share a single one of the ideals of our age. — Hermann Hesse

Always amusing, that moment when realization finally kicked in. Sometimes, I wished I could've recorded the shit to play over and over for laughs. — Keri Lake

One gift I think is a great one is a gift for self-entertainment. — Marty Rubin

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. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Love Rocks The De La Cruz's World — P.T. Macias

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

An idea sparked in the 1960s, a thought experiment, an amusing haiku, is now a thing of metal and glass. — Janna Levin

Defiance was only amusing when the stakes were low. — Courtney Milan

She looked like an angel who had decided that it was far more amusing to be wicked than to be good. — Suzanne Harper

find this amusing. 'Didn't you say you lived in Richmond?' 'Yeah. So what? — Will Hodgkinson

You want a favor from me, it's going to involve crown molding or adding extra can lights. I draw the line at amusing your bouche — Lisa Kleypas

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. — Alexei Sayle

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to. — Oscar Wilde

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. — James Anthony Froude

I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language. — Agatha Christie

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns. — George R R Martin

It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing. — E. M. Forster

What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing. — Louis L'Amour

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults? — Marilyn Manson

May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch — Keisha Keenleyside

I don't do emoticons unless I'm making a big deal out of them. I'll type out, 'This is so amusing it makes me want to grin in pixels.' And then do it. — Sloane Crosley

As her mum always says, one of the advantages of being an only child is that you have no trouble amusing yourself. — Liane Moriarty

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. — Bob Newhart

We need the courage to say obesity is not funny and vulgarity is not amusing. — Maya Angelou

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato

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

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death. — John Piper

Information was like an aphrodisiac to Finn. Uncovering people's secrets an amusing game. — Jennifer Estep

The house of God doesn't get terribly good reception, I'm afraid. — Philip Hemplow

And let's face it, the French Army couldn't beat a girls hockey team — Bill Bryson

Falling in love and falling to your death feel about the same, I thought. And I almost laughed. — Shannon Hale

That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying. — Charles Bukowski

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours. — Seneca The Younger

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. — William Hurlbut

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

There were few things Deaf people found more amusing than hearing people who knew just enough sign to be dangerous. — Darynda Jones

It's not by amusing oneself that one learns. — Anatole France

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

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. — Oliver Goldsmith

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. — Laurence Sterne

Of course, everyone wants to be healthy. The amusing thing is no one's really sure how to do it. — Jerry Seinfeld

I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself. — Laurence Fox

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. — Thomas Carlyle

You live but once; you might as well be amusing. — Coco Chanel

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too. — Ada Leverson

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

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others. — Dick Cavett

If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing. — Bing Crosby

When people take themselves really seriously, I find it silly and amusing. — Sarah Steele

The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing. — Donald Rumsfeld

The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world. — Sydney, Lady Morgan

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling. — Emmett Tyrrell

I was annoying her and found it pretty amusing. Girls didn't usually treat me with unadulterated loathing, even when I was showing them the door. — Jamie McGuire

Probation? How amusing. Probation would imply a source of authority. — Kami Garcia

Everything's more amusing when read in voices. — Tessa Dare

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous. — Donald Rumsfeld

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

When a new baby is expected mother has 9 months to prepare the family and the kitchen for her departure! — Nursing Mothers' Association Of Australia

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

Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me. — Fabien Barthez

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty. — Umberto Eco

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking. — William Shatner

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing. — Laurell K. Hamilton

humor is a spiritual journey to see the world in a unique, amusing way. — Ed Toolis

Lightsong had never bothered to learn the rules.
He found it more amusing to play when he had no idea what he was doing. — Brandon Sanderson

Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: 'Lies! — Mikhail Bulgakov

I can't bare you when you're not amusing. — Evelyn Waugh

Hey, you're not supposed to find our magnificent organs amusing. — Barbara Elsborg

Oh, God. I'm trapped in the fucking Chronicles of Narnia."
"I'm sure that would be an amusing reference, if I understood it. — Richelle Mead

Life is full of amusement to an amusing man. — Henry Ward Beecher

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes. — Terry Pratchett

Life's more amusing than we thought. — Andrew Lang

Bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin. — George Eliot

He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time. — Edith Pargeter

What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing. — H.L. Mencken

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use. — H.L. Mencken

Viscerally, what Genevieve felt, and it wasn't at all amusing. — Loretta Chase

I laugh because your pain is amusing. — Lauren Dane

He laughed, like someone had stabbed him in the chest and he had no other choice but to find it amusing. — Marissa Meyer

Angus is amusing himself by ambushing the postman. Och aye, they may have taken his trouser snake addendums, but they cannae tak his freedom!! — Louise Rennison

What is the point of bad dates if not to have amusing anecdotes for your friends? — Gabrielle Zevin

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate. — Caitlin Moran

Ah, you are amusing."
"I am not amusing!" I lifted my chin. "I'm pissed."
"Really," he replied dryly. "I never would've guessed that. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars. — Donald Fagen