#earnest

It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#earnest #easy #get #these #venues

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? ↗

— Dave Barry

#bent #earnest #keep #knees #learn

They were both in their own ways earnest; they both wanted to achieve some worthy end or other, change the world for the better. Such alluring, such perilous ideals! ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#earnest #ideals #change

Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#jack #oscar-wilde #the-importance-of-being-earnest #change

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. ↗

— Sarojini Naidu

#courage #deeper #earnestness #greater #motive

There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called Ernest. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#inspirational

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#made #see #set #then #you

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#earnest #end #even #stage

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#contrary #earnest #error #more #often

By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#believe #definition #earnest #i #i am