Solemnity Quotes
Collection of top 28 famous quotes about Solemnity
Solemnity Quotes & Sayings
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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
In a woman's womb.another chance.
to make the world better. — Ellen Hopkins
My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.
— Helen McCrory
I have a talent for missing the best and greatest parties.
— David Alan Grier
The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.
— Thomas Merton
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
— Montesquieu
The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
— Alfred North Whitehead
He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
and with great solemnity, 'I'm glad yer stopped 'em fighting. I'm scared
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. (1 Peter 5:8)
— Bible. New International Version
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
— Henry David Thoreau
Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.
— Carroll Bryant
Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.
— Frederick William Robertson
The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.
— Vincent Canby
All of these stars, the most powerful actors in film, they were all gone in an instant.
— Chuck Palahniuk
If only he had more humor, more life in him; that was what was needed here. Grim places needed lightening, not solemnity,
— George R R Martin
No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity.
— William Shakespeare
The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous.
— G.K. Chesterton
The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.
— Russell Baker