Earnest Quote by Geoff Dyer

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

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“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

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

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

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“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

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

For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to…

— Stephen Dobyns

I've seen the most remarkable thing. It's in the New York Public Library. They've got the original typescript of 'The Importance of Being Earnest'…

— Peter Shaffer

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

— Don DeLillo

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one,…

— John Sterling