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Quotes About Amusement

I am excessively diverted.
~ Jane Austen
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
~ Jane Austen
What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
~ Jane Austen
I do not cough for my own amusement.
~ Jane Austen
Do you dance, Mr. Darcy? Darcy: Not if I can help it! Sir William: What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies. Mr. Darcy: Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance.
~ Jane Austen
She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation
~ Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
~ Jane Austen
I dearly love a laugh.
~ Jane Austen
In that moment, as they stood smiling at one another, Charlotte was conscious of several contradictory sensations, of which the chief were these: annoyance with herself for being incapable of governing her own actions, satisfaction that Sidney had won this very minor victory over her, amusement, embarrassment - an odd something between perturbation and pleasure - and above all else, a flutter of joyful spirits which made her feel she had strayed somehow into a most unfamiliar world.
~ Jane Austen
I have formed my plan, and am determined to enter on a course of serious study. Our own library is too well known to me, to be resorted to for any thing beyond mere amusement. But there are many works well worth reading at the Park; and there are others of more modern production which I know I can borrow of Colonel Brandon. By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want." Elinor
~ Jane Austen
Pourquoi sommes-nous sur terre, sinon pour fournir quelque distraction à nos voisins, et en retour, nous égayer à leurs dépens ?
~ Jane Austen
I do not cough for my own amusement, replied Kitty fretfully.
~ Jane Austen
While I can have my mornings to myself," said she, "it is enough—I think it is no sacrifice to join occasionally in evening engagements. Society has claims on us all; and I profess myself one of those who consider intervals of recreation and amusement as desirable for everybody.
~ Jane Austen
Para qué vivimos sino para entretener a nuestros vecinos y reírnos de ellos a la vez?
~ Jane Austen
What do you think makes you start laughing and unable to stop?
~ Jane Smiley
I rolled my eyes so far into the top of my head I almost fell over backward.
~ Janet Evanovich
And here's the good part: He got a tongue could measure twenty-one inches. Bet Mrs. Giraffe likes that one.
~ Janet Evanovich
Finally, a sport I could enjoy.
~ Janet Evanovich
That was just like a ride," he said. "Did you see me going around in there? Like a fun house, right? Like an amusement park. I ride all those rides. I'm used to that sort of thing. I sit right up front.
~ Janet Evanovich
So much for the sexy moment, I thought. Saved by monkey gas.
~ Janet Evanovich
Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
~ Erma Bombeck
Every funny story has at least one unusual thing in it.
~ Matt Besser
In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater.
~ Wallace Shawn
I love Steve Harvey on 'Family Feud.' I love 'Antiques Roadshow' and 'Fixer Upper.' Anything that's mind-numbing.
~ Margo Martindale