#amusement

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#amusements #concerned #fail #forgetting #his

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#amusement #because #friends #i #know

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#based #book #character #directly #every

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. ↗

— David Mamet

#carnival #degenerated #drama #films #offer

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#amusement #generally #marriage #sad #solemn

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#door #happen #i #just #like

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#life #tolerable #would

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#amusement #flat #friendly #keeps #love

This is a perfect example of how entirely out of hand the women in this country have gotten. You act like men aren't anything more than extraneous amusements, little toys to keep you entertained. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#entertainment #men #toys #women #men

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. ↗

— Max Ernst

#decorative #discovery #either #every #every time