Quotes of: Weighty Keyword

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty.

Tony Vincent

My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'

Prince William

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Virginia Woolf

Character displays "the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood.

Them

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Dune

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Francis Bacon

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

Catching Fire

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

Vita Sackville-West

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

Wislawa Szymborska

...some say Twitter seems trite and lacks weightiness - but in actuality, it lends itself to poetry - it can be very compressed and intense...

A Familiar Rain

A brick could be used as a paperweight, for people whose writing isn’t as dense or weighty as mine. 

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.

The Raven Boys

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

Peter Ackroyd

What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.

Cotton Mather

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

Isaac Rosenberg

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

Rudolf Otto

A brick could be used as a paperweight, if the words you wrote weren’t weighty enough to hold it down. 

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.

The Master of Heathcrest Hall

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, so...

Yoshihiko Noda