A Quote by Geoff Dyer

I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he says, "Ah, earnestness, the sure sign of a slow mind." Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.

Geoff Dyer

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Geoff Dyer
English - Writer
Born: June 5, 1958

Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.

Geoff Dyer

If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the earnest saint. It is the mixing up of the two that is so disastrous. Nothing can block you so effectively as compromise, for it shows lack of earnestness, without which nothing can be done.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Portland is utopia. My favorite thing would be it's earnestness. I am earnest, too.

Jonathan Krisel

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Charles Spurgeon

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

John Muir

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Disraeli

I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the child who hears it and to myself.

Margaret Wise Brown

This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.

Ellie Kemper

I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what shall I do with the serious part of myself?

Anne Bronte

With Sleater-Kinney, we have a lot of earnest fans, and we were an earnest band.

Carrie Brownstein

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

Tom Stoppard

Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.

America Ferrera

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

William James

I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection; that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.

George Washington

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