Amusing Quotes

There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing Of old random jottings set down in a blank book You've unearthed from a drawer as you looked for your bank book. - Amy Lowell

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory. - Mario Cuomo

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse. - Benjamin Disraeli

The same dress is indecent ten years before its time; daring one year before its time; chic (contemporarily seductive) in its time; dowdy five years after its time; hideous twenty years after its time; amusing thirty years after its time; romantic one hundred years after its time; beautiful one hundred and fifty years after its time. - James Laver

The next thing they'll say if his trigger finger is broken, his tongue is still working. It's really amusing. - James McIntyre

The failure of woman to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it n. - Anna Garlin Spencer

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them. - Moliere

The crowds may miss (the outbursts) a bit. Sometimes it can be amusing, but other times, when it gets profane, there's no need for it. - Bud Collins

The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work. - Karl Lagerfeld

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their ''Hub',' as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there. - Oscar Wilde