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We've found 19 quotes and 4 authors for 'Earnest' (0.147 seconds):


Authors:  Earnest Hemingway Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I

Movies:  Importance of Being Earnest (1952) Importance of Being Earnest (2002)


"All you Earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh." »Reinhold Niebuhr 
"To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful." »Henry Tuckerman 
"Men in Earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth." »Hubert Humphrey 
"I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge I am one who is fond of antiquity, and Earnest in seeking it there." »Confucius 
"I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard." »William Lloyd Garrison 
"I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and Earnest in seeking it there." »Confucius, The Confucian Analects 
"We cannot be too Earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct." »Author Unknown 
"I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch--and I will be heard." »William Lloyd Garrison 
"I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even Earnest advice from my seniors." »Henry David Thoreau 
"I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even Earnest advice from my seniors." »Henry David Thoreau 
"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in Earnest." »Charles Dickens 
"The doubt of an Earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds." »John Lancaster Spalding 
"Life is real Life is Earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
"This world is given as the prize for the men in Earnest and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come." »Frederick William Robertson 
"This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come." »Frederick William Robertson 
"Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in Earnest." »Bion 
"'Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.'" »
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of Earnest struggle. . . .If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters." »Frederick Douglas 
"On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No No Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in Earnest I will not equivocate I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard." »Lloyd Garrison 
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