amuse-gueule

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork—reading, writing, thinking—can.

It did not amuse me, nor, so far as I could discern, was Monsieur de Tressan greatly taken with it.

You think that if a man's charming, that's the end of him, and that all he's good for is to amuse a few old ladies at a tea party.

When he was in a good humour he used to amuse himself by saying, 'It's the first time a pipe has changed into a shoe.'

It is a big world she sees, big enough and beautiful enough to amuse a little girl for some while.

You, who love to amuse yourself in all depths, will you not make an excursion into the depths of Edgar Poe?