Quotes About Serious

Dor. So you think, Lysidas, that all the wit and beauty are to be found in serious poems, and that comic pieces are trifles which deserve no praise? Ur. I certainly do not think so. Tragedy no doubt is very fine when it is well written; but comedy has also its charms, and I believe that one is no less difficult than the other.

The family was serious about education; after dinner, Fred was known to issue volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica to his children and guests for a little light reading.

1. By flushing the sperm down the toilet, you flush the lucky ones. Lucky ones considering the economic situation. 2. With inflation rising, a person starts a serious relationship with a masturbator.

Zaira blew out a breath and, getting out of bed, began to pace. Since she was dressed in only a pair of black panties, the sight was distracting despite the serious nature of their discussion, but Aden didn't tell her to put on clothes. He was an Arrow, not an idiot.

Are you going to be serious?" She scowled. "No. I'd rather cause an earthquake.

I tend to instantly regret every serious new responsibility I take on. I always want to take it back.

For the next quarters of a century, spiritualism, with its benevolent view of the soul and advocacy of social reform, was a serious concern for many suffragists.

He was telling her of the great good that might be done, say, to a nunnery, by this gift of prediction, and perhaps she should become a nun and give not only her cloak but all her other gifts to God. Indeed, if she did not do that, it might appear that her prediction was from Satan, and that would indeed be a serious thing for her.

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

Religion is the only serious thing, but one need not take seriously every declaration of homo religiosus.

One could object to science that it easily falls into the hands of imbeciles, if religion's case were not just as serious.

Philosophy is the art of lucidly formulating problems. Inventing solutions is not an occupation of serious intellects.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

Radio stations broadcast without interruption the music of Chopin, since it is thought that this favors concentration and serious reflection.

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these become at last their most serious concerns.

These clownish words of deceit were taken more seriously than the truth.

Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.

If a situation requires swearing to God it is — by definition — extreme.

Not only the best historical, but the best Hartnell, and, in its serious handling of dramatic material in a truly dramatic style, arguably the best ever Doctor Who story.