The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
– Henry David Thoreau
It would be terribly boring to be earnest.
– Adrien Brody
It’s so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest.
– Ana Gasteyer
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
– Samuel Johnson
Life is earnest – and always has been.
– Richard Wagner
I think I’m much too earnest to be as cool as ‘Boyd Crowder’.
– Walton Goggins
