Definition of Diverted

Diverted Quotations

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Samuel Johnson

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Samuel Richardson

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
Jessica Savitch

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.
Phaedrus

Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.
John McCarthy

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
J. B. Priestley

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
Mary Wortley Montagu

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.
Robert Shea

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
Anita Brookner