Serious Things Quotations

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who... owns NYC practically. That's a mogul. I feel like I'm on my way to a lot more, but mogul is a really serious thing. I think it's a word that gets thrown around easily.

The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

One must speak about serious things seriously.

A joke's a very serious thing.

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.

Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things

I love acting, and that's my passion. So I would love to do more movies and some serious things

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long as we can, until we're compelled to abandon him completely against our will. It's a serious thing to toss away money, but to cast aside a person is even more serious. Nothing in human life is more rarely found, nothing more dearly possessed. No loss is more chilling or more dangerous than that of a friend.

An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.

Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.