Top 248 Amuse Quotes & Sayings

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Amuse-bouches are an opportunity to push boundaries.

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

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

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.

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

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

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

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

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

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

Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?

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

Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.

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

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

I believe words should amaze or amuse. Only then will the listener want to understand the meaning of the song.

I do films that amuse me and I can enjoy watching.

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.

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

People who are obsessed amuse me.

My thoughts amuse me.

I write the books to amuse myself.

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

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

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

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

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

I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.

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

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

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

Fashion and decor should amuse you and your friends.

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

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

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

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

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

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

... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.

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?

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.

I like to amuse myself.

I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

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

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

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

Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Liberals amuse me. I am a socialist.

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

We only ever write jokes that amuse us.

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