Amusement Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.”

Thomas Jefferson

Books, Reading, Knowledge, Amusement, Personal Preference

2. “It is just the literature that we read for 'amusement' or 'purely for pleasure' that may have the greatest, least suspected, earliest influence on us.”

T.S. Eliot

Literature, Amusement, Influence, Reading Impact, Personal Development, Unconscious Learning

3. “I don’t talk for your amusement.”

Henry James

Self-Expression, Authenticity, Communication, Amusement, Expression, Honesty

4. “Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.”

Charles Baudelaire

Right To Amuse, Self-Expression, Witty Insight, Amusement, Right, Self

5. “Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”

Charles Baudelaire

Work Philosophy, Boredom Relief, Human Activity, Productivity, Amusement, Labor

6. “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

Voltaire

Reading Dancing, Amusement, Joy, Positivity, Culture

7. “Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.”

Voltaire

Reading Dancing, Joy, Amusement, Culture, Positivity

8. “Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.”

George Bernard Shaw

Existential Reflection, Hell, Duty And Work, Hope, Hell, Amusement