“A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”
Ernest Hemingway
“There's not a nook within this solemn pass/ But were an apt confessional for one/ Taught by his summer spent, his autumn gone,/ That life is but a tale of morning grass/ Withered at eve.”
William Wordsworth
“The Chinese Government has solemnly declared that it would not be the first to use nuclear weapons at any time and in any circumstance,”
Zhang Yan
“We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.''”
Petra Kelly
“A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.”
Henry Fielding
“Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn”
Olive Schreiner
“There was three Kings into the east, / Three kings both great and high, / And they hae sworn a solemn oath / John Barleycorn should die.”
Robert Burns
