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Definition of Amused

Amused

of Amuse

Diverted.

Expressing amusement; as, an amused look.

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Amused Quotations

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
W. E. B. Du Bois

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
Giacomo Casanova

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.
Harry Houdini

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
Honore de Balzac

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Robert Browning

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
Julia Roberts

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
William Ellery Channing

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.
Elvis Costello

I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.
John Barton

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.
Mary MacLane

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.
Richard Stallman

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.
Ken Follett

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
Fanny Kemble

So I was surprised at the notion that I might have brought anthrax to my home, and would have been even amused if it was not for the fact that this matter is so grave and serious.
Steven Hatfill

Happy is the person who can laugh at himself. He will never cease to be amused.
Habib Bourguiba

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

I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
Karen Morley

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
Charles Edward Montague

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite