I have the satiric temperament: when I am laughing at anyone I am generally rather amusing, but when I am praising anyone, I am always deadly dull.

-Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)
  In The Saturday Review, 28 May.

   PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple; previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel.'

-Coupland, Douglas
Generation X,'M T V Not Bullets'.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.

-Froude,James Anthony
  Oceana.