Entertainment | The World of English

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience’s attention.

What masque? What music? How shall we beguile the lazy time, if not with some delight?
William Shakespeare

I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what’s going on in their lives. Not everything.
Richard Gere

L -Life I -Is F -For E -Entertainment.
Davina

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment – the most fun thing that we could do was food.
Paul Prudhomme

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.
Marshall McLuhan

We’re in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
Ice Cube

Demons, werewolves, zombies they’re all supposed to be for entertainment purposes only.
Jen Naumann

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.
Jeremy Collier

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment.
Quentin Tarantino

I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.
Alan Vega

God is looking for gifted people to send to the world of entertainment, to reveal himself there.
Sunday Adelaja

Horrible sense of humor?” Hunter’s eyes twinkled as he engaged in our banter. “Compared to your one-word witticisms, I’m a fountain of entertainment.
Katherine McIntyre

The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.
Howard Dietz

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
David Mitchell

You know, entertainment is just a curtain at the end of the day.
Aubrey O’Day

I was never one for the passenger seat. I have always wanted my level of entertainment and showmanship to be the same as a frontman.
Tommy Lee

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We’re so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without writers, none of the entertainment would exist. It starts with writers. Writers are the most important piece of the entire puzzle.
Hill Harper

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.
John Arbuthnot

Education is not about Intellectual Entertainment..It is about continuous improvement, inside and outside!
Abha Maryada Banerjee

What a terrible thing an education was, he thought, if it produced the kind of mind that despised entertainment and the people who valued it.
Nick Hornby

If you can find it in you to love how stupid the entertainment industry is, you can have a great career.
Jon Cryer

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
Bil Keane

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it’s sad and it’s sick … and it’s profitable.
Heather Donahue

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?
Robert Hughes

I cannot think it either Vanity or Virtue to acknowledge, that the Acquisition and communication of Knowledge, are the sole Entertainment of my Life.
John Adams

Well, first of all it’s entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we’re great artists.
Richard Thompson

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.
Denzel Washington

People don’t listen to karaoke, they endure it until it is their turn. It is the singularly most self-indulgent form of entertainment available.
Will Ferguson

In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face.
Maxim Gorky

From early on … we really looked at the Internet as a whole new way to provide storytelling and entertainment.
Benny Fine

If you’re creating an entertainment site, you want the content to be the star.
Chad Hurley

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it’s also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past – whether it’s good or bad.
Amber Valletta

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I enjoyed your little comedy, Jonson. You have great potential. Thank you, my lord. But its politics did have quite an effect on the Tower. My father-in-law’s men felt it quite seditious. Politics. My play has nothing to do with politics. It’s just a simple comedy. That showed your betters as fools who would barely get food from plate to mouth without the cleverness of their servants. All art is political, Jonson. Otherwise, it would just be decoration. And all artists have something to say. Otherwise, they’d make shoes. And you are not a cobbler, are you, Jonson?
Francesco? A play, my lord. One you shall stage Bankside. Stage? Under your name. My name, my lord? I can’t very well use my name, can I? I’m the 17th Earl of Oxford. The Lord Great Chamberlain of England, Viscount Bolebec, Lord of Escales, Sanford and Badlesmere, etc. No. I have a reputation to protect. In my world, one does not write plays, Jonson. People like you do.