A Quote by Iris Murdoch

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. — © Iris Murdoch
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.
Life is too serious to be taken seriously.
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
The incarnation is “a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers Until we too have taken the idea of the God-man seriously enough to be scandalized by it, we have not taken it as seriously as it demands to be taken.
Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.
The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.
If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
The Russian people, at least the ones I know, have pride in being a Russian. And, therefore, they want to be taken seriously in international affairs.
I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.
The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.
(I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is really listening. Europe's reputation as a serious player in international affairs is unenviable. It is a feeble giant who desperate attempts to be taken seriously are largely risible. It has a weak currency and a sluggish inflexible economy, still much reliant on hidden protectionism. It has a shrinking, ageing, population and, with the exception of Britain, rather unimpressive armed forces and, not excepting Britain, muddled diplomacy.
I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.
There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.
Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.
You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.
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