Top 34 Being Earnest Quotes
#1. When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.
Charlie Brooker
#2. The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.
Kim Cattrall
#3. I've seen the most remarkable thing. It's in the New York Public Library. They've got the original typescript of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - all four acts of it.
Peter Shaffer
#4. I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
Oscar Wilde
#5. You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
Randy Pausch
#6. The only difference between us is that I am aware of my natural state, while you are bemused ... We discover it by being earnest, by searching, enquiring, questioning daily and hourly, by giving one's life to this discovery.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#7. I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.
Anna Camp
#9. 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.
Tom Stoppard
#10. Then they could discuss the possibilities of social inequity, the way your socks always fall down when you're wearing rubber boots, and the importance of being earnest.
Stephen King
#11. Earnest young knights are my favorite. I love the looks on their faces when they realize that they're being slow-cooked in their own armor.
Jessica Day George
#12. More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.
Oscar Wilde
#13. An admirable idea! Mr. Worthing, there is just one question I would like to be permitted to put to you. Where is your brother Ernest? We are both engaged to be married to your brother Ernest, so it is a matter of some importance to us to know where your brother Ernest is at present.
Oscar Wilde
#14. The biggest challenge of being the press secretary is trying to be aware of all of the things that are happening, both around the world but also here at home and in politics, and trying to absorb all of that information as quickly as I can.
Josh Earnest
#15. Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
William Hazlitt
#17. If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
Oscar Wilde
#18. There is a safety mechanism in place [to ensure the perambulator doesn't turn back into a purse with a baby in it] : if anything weighing more than a pound and a half-about the weight of a three-volume novel-is in the carriage of the perambulator, it will not transform.
Lev A.C. Rosen
#19. My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.
Mason Cooley
#20. Cupping her face, I brushed her lips with my thumb. "You're medicine for my soul, Bailey. Never forget that."
Her naughty gaze shifted into something softer. "Thank you for being brave enough to love me."
Despite her earnest expression, I laughed. "Like I had a choice.
Bijou Hunter
#21. You take yourself to be limited, but you are not. Discover this. Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it. Just be aware of your being here and now. Reality will find you.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#22. My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.
Josh Earnest
#23. There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
#24. 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
#25. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.
Oscar Wilde
#26. I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.
Josh Radnor
#27. 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
#28. There is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.
Gertrude Stein
#29. There was always this sense, even early on in the campaign, that if the senator Obama could score this upset victory in Iowa, that there was a pretty good chance that he would end up being president of the United States.
Josh Earnest
#30. My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as disgraceful as the way Gwendolen flirts with you.
Oscar Wilde
#31. What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
Oscar Wilde
#32. I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one.
Oscar Wilde
#33. Kami has to give him points for being mature. He looked at her, blue eyes earnest, and she had to give him many more points for being charming.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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