Quotes About Seriousness

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.

Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Is this some exercise in keeping a straight face?

D-d-d-dollars." "That's a silly name for money, Jack—no one'll ever take you seriously, talking that way.

Dr. Barney stared at me, his lips puckered. What was he so serious about? Who hasn't thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it?

My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.

I take musical theater seriously.

People be famous for everything other than music and that's what they really trying to do. But they don't know once you get famous for being this funny guy, nobody's going to take you serious as a musician.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. The name thing: I will always be L.L. Cool J.

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

Even here, even now, one did not joke about the Emperor.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.

The people who must never have power are the humorless.

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.

Nu înÈ›elegeam niciodat? când glumea. Pe la noi, când se glumeÅŸte, se spune ceva, apoi se râde zgomotos, încât toÈ›i s? poat? lua parte la glum?. Guglielmo râdea, în schimb, numai când spunea lucruri serioase ÅŸi r?mânea foarte serios când de fapt glumea.

hay que valerse de la risa para desarmar la seriedad de los oponentes, y a la risa, en cambio, oponer la seriedad.

Admittenda tibi joca sunt post seria quaedam, sed tamen et dignis ipsa gerenda modis». Y

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

I'm serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.

Be serious," said Enjolras. "I am wild," replied Grantaire.

Serious men, grave persons and reasonable people; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry