Solemnity famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
We must bear in recollection that the sentiment of the picture is that of solemnity, not gaiety & nothing garish, but the contrary - yet it must be bright, clear, alive fresh, and all the front seen.
-- John Constable -
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
-- John Milton -
There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.
-- John Ruskin -
He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.
-- Theaster Gates