Solemn Quotes

294 quotes by 231 authors

Serious journalism need not be solemn. — Russell Baker
It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day… — Russell Baker
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one… — Henry Adams
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. — Charles Baudelaire
At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its… — Annie Besant
I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade,… — George W. Bush
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger… — Lewis Carroll
We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts,… — C.S. Lewis
I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother. — Charles Spurgeon
The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not wrought a deep… — Alexander Hamilton
To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks… — Ole Hallesby
No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned… — Hugo Black
Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it. — Don Herold
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to… — Alexander Smith
There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. — Robertson Davies
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. — Mark Twain
I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to… — George Washington
Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security. — Adolf Hitler
It is my earnest hope - indeed the hope of all mankind - that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of… — Douglas MacArthur

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