Earnestness Quote by Heinrich Böll

There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the…

— John Green

Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

— Oscar Wilde

I think to compare Germany to the Third Reich is utterly ludicrous.

— Tariq Ali

Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and…

— Matt Ridley

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

— Javier Marías

“If it was occasionally ludicrous, it was always sublime. [Estelle Jussim on the 19th century Cult of the Beautiful.] ”

— Estelle Jussim

“The idea of spilling blood for the sake of oil would have seemed ludicrous.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous…

— Andrew Solomon

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and…

— Aldous Huxley

“Would that I were still a ludicrous character in his lousy book!”

— Philip Roth

Obviously, I've made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that's the way I always was.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a delusional Housewife in possession of an audience must be in want of a ludicrous storyline.

— Carole Radziwill

Banning sports is a ludicrous proposition.

— Mary Pilon

What puzzles me is the way that some of the smaller, unknown chateaux imagine that because Chinese millionaires pay ludicrous sums for the great…

— Simon Hoggart