(2008 quotes found)
“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”
Oscar Wilde
“The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.”
“In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped”
“[Throughout the film, Patrick, who prefers to be called Kitten, dismisses all politics as] serious, serious, serious. ... I love talking about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.”
“All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.”
Benjamin Franklin
“These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest”
“If anyone ever saw me dance. THey'd have trouble taking me seriously.”
Christina Ricci
