Earnest Quotes - Page 2

• What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Errors, Sincerity, Contrary

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Queen Victoria, November 4, 1868.

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• If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Country, Real, Moving

  Louis Farrakhan (1993). “A Torchlight for America”, F C N Publishing Company

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• To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

  James Whistler

  Views, Praise, Said

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• In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain (as long as it was done out of love, not personal glory)

  Frederick William Robertson

  Failure, Sacrifice, Long

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• The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Men, Ethos, Bravery

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• To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Thoughtful, Superficial Things, Fleeting

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 29, 1799.

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• Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Death, Art

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 1 - 2 (1838)

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• When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Weather, People

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• In married life three is company and two none.

  Oscar Wilde

  Two, Three, Importance Of Being Earnest

  'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) act 1

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• My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Sweet, Nice

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.21, Heinemann

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• I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Should Have, Cooking

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.270, Penguin

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• Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Amusement, Want, Serious

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.112

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• A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.124, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

  Oscar Wilde

  Calling, Half, Firsts

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Character, Opportunity

  "The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. The Original Four-act Version".

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• A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Knowing, Importance Of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.672, Wordsworth Editions

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• If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Littles, Importance Of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Weather, People

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.25

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• By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Anniversary, Single, Funny Valentines Day

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Respect, Dying, Young

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Flirting, Men

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1343, GENERAL PRESS

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• I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Essence, Romance

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.250, Penguin

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• Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cuffs, Muffins, Importance Of Being Earnest

  Charles Osborne, Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Novel for Serious People”, p.100, St. Martin's Press

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• Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Thinking, Importance Of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Favour, Importance Of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.33, Dramatic Publishing

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