Quotes About Seriousness

God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness

This was one of the differences between the three of us and our new friend, We were essentially taking the piss, except when we were serious. He was essentially serious, except when he was taking the piss. It took us a while to work this out.

We were essentially taking the piss, except when we were serious. He was essentially serious, except when he was taking the piss. It took us a while to work this out.

Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - than love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.

You're way too serious for your own good. I personally think you suffer from middle-child syndrome. You know, you're filled with insecurities and phobias, and you have this need to constantly prove yourself.

I was told you take your capital cases seriously down here.

Claire shook her head. She was scared that he wasn't taking her seriously. She was also scared that he was. They were down the rabbit hole now. There was no turning back.

Everyone who must contend with unbelief should be advised that he ought not to take his own unbelief too seriously. Only faith is to be taken seriously; and if we have faith as a grain of mustard seed, that suffices for the devil to have lost his game.

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive

Being flippant was harder work than being earnest

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch.

The creative life was the only one for a serious man.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.

Hey man! I'm a comedian but I'm not a clown.

What a man hates, he takes seriously.

I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.