Bores Quote by Oscar Wilde

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

— Jeffrey Zaslow

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

— Charles Spurgeon

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

— Victor Hugo

To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.

— Desmond Tutu

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

— Marc Webb

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

“The pieces in "Taking Sides" do not agree with each other. That isn't accidental. There are no easy or singular responses or resolutions to…

— Cindy Milstein

“A Gentleperson understands that it’s better not to take sides. If a Gentleperson decides on taking sides, then they shall take both sides, for…

— Anas Hamshari

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

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

— Herman Melville

“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