#Seriousness Quotes

“The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.”

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

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

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

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

“A joke is a very serious thing.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Business is business, no child's play.”

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

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

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

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

“Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.”

“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.”

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

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

“Every man is grave alone.”

“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.”

“Some things are too important to be taken seriously.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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."”

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

“Let people take death seriously, and not travel far.”

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

“Taking things lightly must lead to big difficulties.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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