Solemnity Quotes

54 Solemnity quotes by 48 unique authors

I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed… — Ralph Ellison
If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry… — Alexander Smith
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to… — Queen Elizabeth II
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons… — Frederick Douglass
Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is… — John Ruskin
In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity. — Criss Jami
Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. — Soren Kierkegaard
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship. — John Milton
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of… — Ezra Pound
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before… — Arthur Schopenhauer
For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of… — Virginia Woolf
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for… — Charles Caleb Colton
The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There's a very generous donation in the parish's future if you make this fast. Ten minutes, at the most." Frowning, the man fumbled open his… — Tessa Dare
When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull… — Ayn Rand
Am I horny enough to hump a bedpost?" Mica asked. "Not quite yet. Should I consult with you first, Doctor?" Sarcasm lay thick and heavy… — Lora Leigh
I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to… — Bram Stoker
In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Solemnity is the shield of idiots — Baron de Montesquieu
Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow… — William Shakespeare
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to… — Virginia Woolf

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