Earnest Quote by 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 says, "Ah,…

— Geoff Dyer

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that…

— Josh Radnor

“I’LL TAKE an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes…

— Randy Pausch

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

No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less,…

— Charles Kingsley

“A question asked in earnest deserves an earnest answer.”

— Christopher Moore

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

— Don DeLillo

“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

There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

— Cassandra Clare