The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.
The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
I do want an expensive honeymoon. Not because I'm extravagant, but because a honeymoon is a solemn, important thing ... a symbol. And it ought to be done -- well, adequately.
Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.
Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.
Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.
When did you last have fun being dignified?
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.
But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice.
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?
Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty.
We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play.
The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out.
With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.
I am a serious guy.
Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.
I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.
I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim.
I'm accused by many people of being the most serious man on television.
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
I can't be funny, goofy, happy go lucky all the time.
Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse. Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.
