A Quote by Tom Stoppard

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

Tom Stoppard

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Tom Stoppard
English - Dramatist
Born: July 3, 1937

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

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

Oscar Wilde

The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored.

Penn Jillette

The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.

Kim Cattrall

Susan B. Anthony

That a friendship ends doesn't mean it was weak from the outset; that it ends says nothing about its importance.

Rumaan Alam

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

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

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

Anna Camp

I started doing regional theater. My first job was "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Dallas Theater Center.

Anna Camp

The most important to me is, Theo is a good person first and foremost. And I think that has a lot to do with it. He's not deceitful. He's an honest guy, a good guy. There's a lot more to this thing than it being a job for him, being born and raised here, the Red Sox being as important as they are to him. Above all else, Theo understands he's a compromiser. Theo understands that the clubhouse is our home. He doesn't invade that privacy often. When he does, he doesn't make you uncomfortable and that says as much about him as anything.

Curt Schilling

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

The Constitution says nothing about anchor babies. The 14th Amendment says nothing about birthright citizenship.

Rush Limbaugh

I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it also to prove your manhood. They all couldn't conceive of why I'd want to stop to do 'The Importance of Being Earnest.'

Powers Boothe

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

Susan B. Anthony

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

Susan B. Anthony

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