Connotation Quote by Josh Radnor

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

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

— Van Wyck Brooks

I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he says, "Ah,…

— Geoff Dyer

Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

— Jeffrey Zaslow

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

— Charles Spurgeon

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method…

— Oswald Chambers

Cynical is a fool's word for realist.

— Paul Christopher

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

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

— Victor Hugo

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

“Well, they want to FEEL earnest,” Mr. Touchett allowed; “but it seems as if they took it out in theories mostly. Their radical views…

— Henry James

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