Quotes About Earnest

Fashion in the mid-'90s was too easy. Artistic culture was very earnest, so I was flamboyant and dangerous. I wanted to be seen as more than an outline, so I used fashion to say that for me.

Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.

You may light on a husband that hath no beard. BEATRICE What should I do with him? Dress him in my apparel and make him my waiting gentlewoman? He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man; and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him. Therefore I will even take sixpence in earnest of the bearherd, and lead his apes into hell.

His face was cast from a serious mold

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

The more earnest people got, the more flippant she became. It was a flaw.

Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.

Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

I was a very conscientious student.

Most of the stuff I've done is quite serious, so I'm usually studious.

I was very studious.

O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.

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

Beauty will not come at the call of the legislature.... It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.

all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons" echoes

Technology can't do what humans do. Whatever it is that we do, we should do it now in earnest. If art is the gap's boatman, its job now grows critical: because it alone addresses our humanity. And we're going to need some of that.

How could you speak of life and death with such a heart? How could you preach of heaven and hell in such a careless, sleepy manner? Do you believe what you say? Are you in earnest or in jest? How can you tell people that sin is such a thing, and that so much misery is upon them and before them and not be more affected with it? Shouldn't you weep over such a people, and shouldn't your tears interrupt your words?

Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

You gotta love the names. They're so eager, earnest, and hopeful: Camp Prosperity, Camp Liberty, and Camp Victory are the names of just a few of the U.S. military bases in Baghdad.

They come from all over, and they are on the average very young, very earnest, and not very much in touch with the larger scene, less refugees from it than children who do not quite apprehend it.

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

perhaps Tryon will convince Husband that he's in earnest. If Hermon