Earnest Quotes

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

There are no perfect answers. The earnest search is all we can expect.

I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they're twirling around me at the time.

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

In married life three is company and two none.

My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.