536 Quotes About Entertainment

--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me.--Really? I've found that all my well-read friends are from the working class.--Oh my. Why do you think that is? The purity of poverty?--No. It's just that reading is the cheapest form of entertainment.--Sex is the cheapest form of entertainment.--Not in this house.

A heart favours love, a head favours work, a heart and head both favours hobby.

Writing in the form of activism, art, or entertainment is a necessary and basic foundation for a productive, well informed society.

Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life, but on a deeper level stories help us explore issues that are otherwise difficult to address. On one hand a good book helps us escape our troubles, and on the other hand it can help us face up to those troubles by bringing real issues to the fore, often in a more manageable way, since the problems are experienced vicariously through the eyes of another.

People who hate solitude have very low standards when it comes to the company they keep.

Most people would rather be boring than be bored.

I, unlike the vast majority of people, do not find solitude intolerable. As a matter of fact, I enjoy solitude, so much so that there is no dead or living person whose company I preferred, would have preferred, or prefer over my own.

Among other things, friendship is a mutual fight against solitude and boredom.

One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics.