Quotes on Amusing

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and either laughed or shook their heads reproachfully. They do not believe that these impressions, these instant sensations, could contain even the smallest grain of sanity. If a tree is red or blue, or a face is blue or green, they are sure that is insanity.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

Gossip can also kill, because it kills the reputation of the person! It is so terrible to gossip! At first it may seem like a nice thing, even amusing, like enjoying a candy. But in the end, it fills the heart with bitterness, and even poisons us.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.