A Quote by Evelyn Waugh

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

Evelyn Waugh

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Evelyn Waugh
English - Author
October 28, 1903 - April 10, 1966

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

Evelyn Waugh

Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a hard day's labour - they get five minutes religion to amuse them. This is the danger with the liberal thought.

Swami Vivekananda

In those of us who have the mysterious ability to amuse others, it is usually the case that even before we were aware of our own abilities, we had become practiced at laughing more than other children in our social circle.

Steve Allen

On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art.

Isabel Fonseca

Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to continually hold up our government and our leaders to clear-eyed analysis, unaffected by professional spinmeisters and agenda-pushers.

Tony Auth

'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to amuse myself with those curious Notions wherewith you tickle and spur on slow-paced Time; I believe, that the Moon is a World like ours, to which this of ours serves likewise for a Moon.'

Cyrano de Bergerac

Fashion and decor should amuse you and your friends.

Lauren Santo Domingo

We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.

George Washington

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

Amy Dickinson

We only ever write jokes that amuse us.

Jay Chandrasekhar

It's just thinking of funny things that will amuse us and entertain us and we'll come and do it.

Jeremy Clarkson

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

Isaac Asimov

We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.