Solemn Quotes

294 Solemn quotes by 223 unique authors

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of… — Pope Francis
America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity.… — Jennifer Granholm
A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing… — Daphne Guinness
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before… — Robertson Davies
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. — Norman Douglas
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice… — George Eliot
Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a… — James Fenton
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could… — Robert A. Heinlein
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a… — Ernest Hemingway
One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. — Christopher Hitchens
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. — Aldous Huxley
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our… — William James
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad,… — William James
Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and… — Olusegun Obasanjo
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire… — Pope John Paul II
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest. — Rabindranath Tagore
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading… — Pierre Trudeau
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. — Queen Victoria
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. — Gore Vidal
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it. — George Will
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like… — William Shakespeare
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots — Albert Einstein
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so… — Jane Austen
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp… — W. S. Gilbert

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