Quotes of: Earnestness Keyword

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!

William Lloyd Garrison

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

Babbitt

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

Annie Dillard

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The Importance of Being Earnest

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about.

The Importance of Being Earnest

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

The Importance of Being Earnest

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

The Importance of Being Earnest

MISS PRISM Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.

The Religious Affections

It is good to know; it is better to do; it is best to be. To be pure and strong, to be honest and earnest, to be kindly and thoughtful, and in all to be true,...

S.D. Gordon

I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

Thomas Nelson Page

I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.

John C. Reilly

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.

Andrew Weil

This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.

Benjamin Harrison

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

Saint Ignatius

Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.

Charles R. Swindoll

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

Heber J. Grant

Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn't normally.

Joe Thomas

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Jean Anouilh