"Serious" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a thousand ways 490 She whirls her giddy empire. Lo, thus far With bold adventure to the Mantuan lyre I sing for contemplation link'd with love, A pensive theme. Now haply should my song Unbend that serious countenance, and learn Thalia's tripping gait, her shrill-toned voice, Her wiles familiar: whether scorn she darts In wanton ambush from her lip or eye, Or whether, with a sad disguise of care O'ermantling ...
— Poetical Works of Akenside - [Edited by George Gilfillan] • Mark Akenside
... been married now eight years. Does it not occur to you that this is the first time we two, you and I, husband and wife, have had a serious conversation? ...
— A Doll's House • Henrik Ibsen
... me a serious source of annoyance that so large a number of persons endeavor to impress upon my mind the idea that it is an act of charity to patronize me to the extent of the purchase of a single book, while just after me a strong man, with faculties unimpaired, a man amply able to do other ...
— The World As I Have Found It - Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl • Mary L. Day Arms
... during the voyage, and this is the first day that he has found tolerable. Once more he is able to eat and stand up; able to think, devise, resolve, and execute; able, in short, to be Coronado. Look at the little, sunburnt, sinewy, earnest, enduring man; study his diplomatic countenance, serious and yet courteous, full of gravity and yet ready for gayety; notice his ready smile and gracious wave of the hand as he salutes the skipper. He has been through horrors; he has fought a tremendous fight of passion, crime, and peril; yet he scarcely ...
— Overland • John William De Forest
... "I don't think anything serious happened to them, anyhow," said Job Titus one day. "And I should hate to think our work was responsible ...
— Tom Swift and his Big Tunnel - or, The Hidden City of the Andes • Victor Appleton
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