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Quotes About Amusement

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
A laugh is a smile that bursts.
~ Unknown
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
She is smiling at me. It is a wistful smile. The kind of smile no one is capable of before the age of forty. The kind that contains sadness and defiance and amusement all at once.
~ Matt Haig
It is a wistful smile. The kind of smile no one is capable of before the age of forty. The kind that contains sadness and defiance and amusement all at once.
~ Matt Haig
The kind of smile no one is capable of before the age of forty. The kind that contains sadness and defiance and amusement all at once.
~ Matt Haig
Buster never cracks a smile. Ever. No matter what. That's what really makes it funny.
~ Unknown
I instantly like people who laugh at my jokes. It's a weakness of mine.
~ Matthew Norman
Meadow didn't know whether to be amused or disgusted by the woman's shameless opportunism.
~ Unknown
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make.
~ Max Beckmann
When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
~ Max Frisch
Because the gliding search of our life Is lacking in one quality, amusement, We shall often return To evenings, men, and walls of stone.
~ Maxwell Bodenheim
He shook his head, again with that smile that didn't show his teeth. It was the smile of a man who hadn't been surprised in a very long time but who felt like he was finally going to be surprised again and was enjoying it.
~ Megan Abbott
And yet . . . after all my longing for this life, it felt strangely empty, beautiful but hollow. I did not want to admit that I found it boring, or that I was floundering in its shallows. How little they thought about anything but their own amusement. Their lives were so easy, so full of beauty and money. How much they could do with it, and how disappointing to find them so vacant.
~ Megan Chance
How little they thought about anything but their own amusement. Their lives were so easy, so full of beauty and money. How much they could do with it, and how disappointing to find them so vacant.
~ Megan Chance
I had no words to give him. No explanation. I didn't understand it, myself. It scared me, but then so do roller coasters, and I ride them anyway, too.
~ Megan Hart
And I don't know why, but I sit on that step until the last person's gone home and I'm still grinning. Like someone who has a bit of a crush.
~ Melina Marchetta
Puck rushed into the kitchen. He looked as if he had just gotten off a roller coaster. "That was awesome!" he cried. "The arrow coming out is totally more fun to watch going in.
~ Michael Buckley
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
~ Michael Jordan
Ford! Sadie shouted sharply. His eyes snapped open and he called "Present!" like a student waking up in class. It had worked. It had worked. Sadie laughed, and he started to laugh too and mutter, "Present!
~ Michele Jaffe
Ready to split his sides with laughing.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.
~ Mike Epps
For the rest of the day Hubert couldn't stop grinning. He grinned in the lift on the way back down to the warehouse. He grinned as he passed Mr Coulthard yelling at the new lads. And he grinned all the more later when Kenneth told him a very odd story about being sent on a wild-goose chase to the fourth floor by a girl from Haberdashery.
~ Mike Gayle