Earnest Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Earnest First time Firsts Importance Importance of being earnest Life Time
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds… — Walter Keane Copy Share Image
My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sends forth to you an earnest appeal. Open your doors to the missionaries. Open your minds… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are;… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy. — William Watson Copy Share Image
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