Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity. — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Ponder the significance of the responsibility the Lord has given to us. The Lord has counseled, "Let the solemnities of eternity rest… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that… — George Bird Grinnell Copy Share Image
Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Am I horny enough to hump a bedpost?" Mica asked. "Not quite yet. Should I consult with you first, Doctor?" Sarcasm lay… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy… — Shaw Neilson Copy Share Image
The most innocent man, pressed by the awful solemnities of public accusation and trial, many be incapable of supporting his own cause.… — William Rawle Copy Share Image
Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
There's a very generous donation in the parish's future if you make this fast. Ten minutes, at the most." Frowning, the man… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer's character, until we hesitate tolay them aside… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
You don't really have to believe what you write in a blog for more than the moment when you're writing it. You… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!"… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world,… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
“And the men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths, the men with the eyes of puff adders, took up their load… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
