Quotes About Amuse

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.

But, of course, you've either got to amuse people or feed 'em or shock 'em. Marjorie had culled this from Oscar Wilde.

I then recollected you gave a breakfast this morning, and here I am. I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.

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.

It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.

and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties.

The agnostic ruling class for whom religion was a kind of puppet show to amuse the polpulace and keep it docile, and who believed essentially that all phenomena – even religious phenomena – could be reduced to mechanical explanations.

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

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

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

The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

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

Some [jests] are becoming to a gentleman, others are not; see that you choose such as become you . Irony better befits a gentleman than buffoonery; the ironical man jokes to amuse himself, the buffoon to amuse other people.

I am not a conventional hero. I am a regular guy trying to entertain people.

Honestly, you could beat me, torture me - just don't bore me.

I love to entertain an audience.

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

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

Of course, it is possible that alien beings travel billions of miles to amuse themselves by planting crop circles in Wiltshire or frightening the daylights out of some poor guy in a pickup truck on a lonely road in Arizona (they must have teenagers, after all), but it does seem unlikely.

I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.

Is that all we mortals are? The victims of tortured irony to amuse an insane murder of gods? A murder of crows, a murder of gods-I like that, lass.

for I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me and quicken my pulse. To be always on one's guard, to catch every look and the significance of every word, to guess intentions, foil conspiracies, pretend to be deceived and then to overthrow with one blow the whole vast edifice of artifices and designs raised with so much effort - that is what I call life.