Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory! — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
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
He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. (1 Peter 5:8)” — Anonymous 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
In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion… — Criss Jami 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
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
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
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
The horrors of Vivisection have supplanted the solemnity, the thrilling fascination, of the old unetherized operation upon the human sufferer. Their recorded… — Henry Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed;… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Solemnity, I don't know what it's for. I mean, what is the point of it? The two most beautiful memorial services that… — John Cleese 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
Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I tutored myself in the art of solemnity, kept my euphoria private, and adopted a serious demeanour in keeping with everyone else… — Judith Kinghorn Copy Share Image
From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
From our sorrow we might seek out the sweetness and the good that is often associated with and peculiar to our challenge.… — Richard C. Edgley Copy Share Image
We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
