Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

If I can be serious now, and I have the feeling I can.

I always took things very seriously. Always have done.

I tend to deal with things in a very serious manner.

Joking apart, now let us be serious.

Sometimes I am screwing around, and sometimes I get way too serious, but I am a pretty sincere person.

Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.

Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.

but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.

Just because I’m cheeky, doesn’t mean I’m not serious

I do not say correct or savory. I do not say seemly or even natural. I say serious. Sensationally serious. Unspeakably serious. Solemnly, recklessly, blissfully serious.

Don't be serious, be sincere.

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

I am very sincere. Some people are always kidding, so when you're not, it's going to seem annoying to them.

My sincerity is my credentials.

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.

Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.

The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.