Seriousness Quotes

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Business is business, no child's play.

Let people take death seriously, and not travel far.

I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

I'm very, very serious - I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

People will know you’re serious when you produce.

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.

And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.

You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.

I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

There is absolutely nothing humorous at the Masters. Here, small dogs do not bark and babies do not cry.

Taking things lightly must lead to big difficulties.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

Every man is grave alone.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance.

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and saying if it comes, good; if it doesn't come, good, I'll just sit here.

I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

From not the gravest of Divines,Accept for once some serious Lines.

If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that."

A joke is a very serious thing.

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

You know, I never trust people who don't laugh, who said, "I am serious" and act as if they put airplane glue on the back of their hands and stuck the glue to their foreheads. I think, "You're not serious; you're boring as hell."

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.