“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”

“Some things are too important to be taken seriously.”

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”

“A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.”

“You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality”

“We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”

“Sir John's temper since he has taken seriously to politics has become quite unbearable. Really, now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.”