Change the world Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Geoff Dyer

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

— Van Wyck Brooks

I don't think of myself as particularly earnest. I have long bouts of cynicism and skepticism. So much of my early life was full…

— Pankaj Mishra

For me, earnestness is the greatest crime an Englishman can commit.

— Grayson Perry

This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method…

— Oswald Chambers

No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.

— William John Locke

To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

— Victor Hugo

“He spoke in hard and angry earnest, if a man ever did," replied the girl, shaking her head. "He is an earnest man when…

— Charles Dickens

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

— Richard Francis Burton