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Famous quotes containing the word amusing:

    ... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair.
    Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)

    I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage—but not so amusing as Broadway.
    Mae West (1892–1980)

    Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn’t be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.
    William Hurlbut (1883–?)