Definition of Amusing

Amusing

of Amuse

Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story.

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Amusing Quotations

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
Mae West

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
H. L. Mencken

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
J. K. Rowling

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
Benjamin Disraeli

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Michel de Montaigne

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
Charles Baudelaire

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

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire

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

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

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.
Orson Welles

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.
Marilyn vos Savant

I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
Rowan Atkinson

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
Nicolas Chamfort

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Laurence Sterne

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.
Maggie Smith

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
Arnold Bennett

I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.
Nana Mouskouri

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.
Clifford Geertz

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?
Joel Coen

St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.
John Dyer

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
Fay Wray

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
James Anthony Froude

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
Yahoo Serious

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.
Josephine Baker

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.
Thomas Kretschmann

I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that.
Persis Khambatta

I die pretty much every year. I find it amusing.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar

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Amusing Translations

amusing in Danish is morsom
amusing in Dutch is aardig, leuk, amusant, vermakelijk
amusing in Italian is dilettevole, giocondo, divertente
amusing in Portuguese is divertir
amusing in Spanish is entretenido, divertido
amusing in Swedish is rolig, lustig

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