Quotations about

Seriousness

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

—Peter Ustinov

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

—Charles F. Kettering

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

—Oscar Wilde

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

—Brendan Gill

We all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.

—Tom Robbins

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

—Brendan Gill

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

—Henry Miller

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

—Rudyard Kipling

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A joke's a very serious thing.

—Charles Churchill

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

—T. S. Eliot

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

—Bill Shankly

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

—Oscar Wilde

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

—George Burns

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

—Nicholas Butler