Solemnity Quotes

54 quotes by 48 authors

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity. — Russell Baker
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. — Ambrose Bierce
If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever… — Maya Angelou
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
Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious… — Victor Hugo
Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy that stays not… — Shaw Neilson
As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world,… — Saint Augustine
The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance. — Thomas Merton
The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly… — Ambrose Bierce
I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance… — John Quincy Adams
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not :… — Thomas Carlyle
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O,… — Robert Breault
Ponder the significance of the responsibility the Lord has given to us. The Lord has counseled, "Let the solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds."… — Ezra Taft Benson
The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. — Garrett Hardin
The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles. — Vincent Canby
There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others… — George Bird Grinnell
No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity. — William Shakespeare
In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and… — James Madison
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from… — FÃ©lix J. Palma

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