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

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

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

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

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.
David Low

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

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

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
Logan Pearsall Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
David Bailey

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 think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Cliff Fadiman

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

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