News, Opinion and Advertisment must all come under the head of Entertainment to a reasonable extentöor they will not be read.People do not read to be bored. Unless a newspaper can make its material in every department interesting it simply is not read.

-Baron
Publicity handout for the Daily Express, quoted in  A  J P  Taylor Beaverbrook (1972), ch.8.

What is art is not likely to be decided for decades or longer after the work has been producedöand then is often redecidedöso we must not think badly if we regard literature as entertainment rather than as transcendent enlightenment.

-Condon, Richard
  Comment in D L Fitzpatrick (ed) Contemporary Novelists.

That's Entertainment.

-Dietz, Howard
  Title of song reputedly written by Dietz and  Arthur Schwartz for the film The Band Wagon in less than an hour.

Americaörather, the United Statesöseems to me to be the Jewamong the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm- hearted, overfriendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travellers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile.

-Ferber, Edna
  A Peculiar Treasure, ch.1.

We've dominated sports and we've dominated entertainment, but our problem has been we've never been able to dominate money.We still don't own our share of business, and it's killing us. It's killing our communities.

-Johnson, Earvin ('Magic')
  On  African  Americans. Quoted in Los  Angeles Magazine, Oct.

An exotic and irrational entertainment.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
^81  Of Italian opera. Lives of the English Poets,'Hughes'.

A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will makea reasonable Dish; and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.

-Swift,Jonathan
  A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from being a Burden to their Parents or Country.

Why is itthat girls so constantlydothis, so frequentlyask men who have loved them to be present at their marriages with other men? There is no triumph in it. It is done in sheer kindness and affection. They intend to offer something whichshall softenand not aggravatethe sorrow that they have caused† I fully appreciate the intention, but in honest truth,I doubt the eligibility of the proffered entertainment.

-Trollope, Anthony
  John Eames.The Small House at Allington, ch.9.