Earnest Quotes · Page 14

All over America there is to be found a large and growing class of earnest, intelligent, progressive colored women . . .…

— Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books;…

— Robin McKinley

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he…

— Geoff Dyer

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

— Marcus Garvey

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

— Jane Fonda

Too many on the Left are earnest about nothing at all, sadly. They've been rendered spineless by snarkiness - not least on…

— Mona Eltahawy

When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her…

— James Keller

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

— Virginia Woolf

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any…

— Michel de Montaigne

Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

— Oscar Wilde

David McKnight gives us the tools to work out where we stand - and what unites rather than divides us - as…

— Margo Kingston

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

— Sam Levenson

I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place…

— Yannis Philippakis

We [Notekillers] are in no way super-earnest about what we do and if you see us live, you see we are cracking…

— David First

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

— Noam Chomsky

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest.…

— Paul Theroux

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and…

— Richard Francis Burton

You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name…

— Oscar Wilde

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the…

— Herman Melville

I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be…

— Anne Bronte

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased…

— Oscar Wilde