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Earnest Quotes - Page 2

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

Oscar Wilde
Men, Knowing, Importance Of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.672, Wordsworth Editions

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

Oscar Wilde
Men, Doe, Importance Of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.44, Heinemann

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

Oscar Wilde
Importance Of Being Earnest, Deny, Earnest
Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.701, Wordsworth Editions

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

Oscar Wilde
Men, Thinking, Importance Of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Desire, Importance Of Being Earnest

Time and pains will do anything.

Frederick William Robertson
Pain, Earnestness
Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”, p.53

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Praise, Admire, Earnest

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Corita Kent
Inspirational, Sincerity, Earnestness

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Devotion, Faculty, Earnestness
"Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 161), 1862.

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

Charles Spurgeon
Mean, Reactionaries, Earnestness
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

Carl Jung
World, Kind, Earnestness
Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.33, North Atlantic Books

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

Alphonse de Lamartine
Enthusiasm, Intoxication, Earnestness

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

Plautus
Jest, Turns, Earnest
"Amphitruo". III. 2. 39,

The weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest.

Johnny Depp
Guy, World, Earnest
"Johnny Depp Is Captain Jack Sparrow In Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. July 29, 2006.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Flip Wilson
Fun, Earnest

Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.

William Watson
Joy, Graves, Earnest

Earnestness is the most important thing.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Important, Important Things, Earnestness

With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.

Ramakrishna
Realizing, Sincerity, Earnestness
Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Men, Trouble, Earnest

I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.

Walton Goggins
Thinking, Earnest
Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. January 31, 2012.

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.

Theodore Roosevelt
Today, Earnest, Loses
Theodore Roosevelt (1911). “Realizable ideals: (the Earl lectures)”

What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer.

Salomon Bochner
Answers, Mathematics, Earnest
Salomon Bochner “Collected Papers of Salomon Bochner”, American Mathematical Soc.

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Biographies, Stout, Earnest
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doe, Jest, Earnest
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.1, Editora Dracaena

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

Marc Webb
Earnestness, Sentimentality
"Interview: Marc Webb Talks 500 Days Of Summer, Cheesy Vs. Lame, Zooey, And Sundance". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. July 17, 2009.

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