"Amuser" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... de s'amuser beaucoup l dedans. Ils couraient tout autour de la salle bruyamment, en faisant de la poussire. Quelques-uns essayaient d'atteindre l'anneau; d'autres, suspendus par les mains, criaient; cinq ou six, de temprament plus ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... it not strange, now, that this poor fool should make himself so entertaining; while you, a wise man, sit there day after day, and have nothing to amuse us with at all?' Dante answered bitterly: 'No, not strange; your Highness is to recollect the Proverb, Like to Like;'—given the amuser, the amusee must also be given! Such a man, with his proud silent ways, with his sarcasms and sorrows, was not made to succeed at court. By degrees, it came to be evident to him that he had no longer any resting-place, or hope of benefit, in this earth. The earthly ...
— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various |
