Quotes About Seriousness

Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.

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.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

There is a time for scientists and movie stars and those who have flown the atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they be taken more seriously than they should be.

Do not waste your time on light, weak, milk­toast ministries and books

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

I do wish he would sometimes be serious. I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what shall I do with the serious part of myself?

Matrimony is a serious thing.

Sunt obiÈ™nuit? s? nu fiu luat? în serios.

Margot is very kind and would like me to confide in her, but I can't tell her everything. She takes me too seriously, far too seriously, and spends a lot of time thinking about her loony sister, looking at me closely whenever I open my mouth and wondering, "Is she acting, or does she really mean it?

the men went downstairs to see if the outside door was still locked, but all was well! Of course, we gave the entire office staff a blow-by-blow account of the incident, which had been far from pleasant. It's much easier to laugh at these kinds of things after they've happened, and Bep was the only one who took us seriously.

At any rate, they laugh at us when we're serious, and they're serious when we're joking.

Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.

At about twenty she had mentioned it quite seriously at the dinner table. It was the only occasion she could recall of every member of her family laughing at once.

I never laugh at

I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.

De repente comprendí que, si hay que tomarse en serio cada momento de un libro, entonces también hay que tomarse en serio cada momento de una vida.

Really, if that's the case, you need to stop letting your mother dress you funny. It's hard to take anyone serious as a killer when he looks like an investment banker. The only part of me that's nervous is my checkbook. (Kat)

He was through playing games. When it came to Soteria, he had no sense of humor whatsoever. Anyone who threatened her, ended their life. It was that simple.

La vida es una aventura. Es emocionante y aterradora. En ocasiones puede ser un poco aburrida pero jamás debería ser seria.

I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.