Always Quote by Anita Brookner

I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.

— Julian Barnes

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

— Jim Morrison

Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?

— Don DeLillo

Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of…

— Rita Mae Brown

I'm a serious person by nature - sometimes too serious.

— Peyton Manning

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

— Alexandra David-Neel

I've never really taken myself too serious. That's everybody else, listening to the music or whatever. I've always said what I've felt, said what…

— Ice Cube

“Why are you not serious my friend? Why aren't you? Being serious is not something negative. Being serious means being responsible for what happens…

— Abhijit Naskar

I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.

— Leonard Cohen

I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

I don't take myself too seriously, I try to always encourage people when they come to see me that nothing is really serious.

— Bianca Del Rio