„The pity is the public will demand and find a moral in my book — or worse they may take it in some more serious way, and on the honor of a gentleman, there is not one single serious line in it.“

— James Joyce

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„Humor is also a way of saying something serious.“
— T.S. Eliot
„Try to grasp the essence of what the great artists, the serious masters, say in their masterpieces, and you will again find God in them. One man has written or said it in a book, another in a painting.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„Modern linguistics has also failed to deal with the Cartesian observations regarding human language in any serious way.“
— Noam Chomsky
„Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.“
— Douglas Adams