1 Humanity takes itself too seriously.
2 My dear fellow, I am not quite serious.
3 I suppose one must be serious sometimes.
4 Lord Henry looked serious for some moments.
5 And mind you don't talk about anything serious.
6 And now, my dear fellow, I want to speak to you seriously.
7 It is so tedious a subject that one would have to talk seriously about it.
8 As for Sibyl, I do not know at present whether her attachment is serious or not.
9 You will bitterly reproach him in your own heart, and seriously think that he has behaved very badly to you.
10 When we meet--we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke's--we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.
11 He remembered that Lord Henry had said to him once, half seriously and half in jest, "If you want to have a strange quarter of an hour, get Basil to tell you why he won't exhibit your picture."
12 The son, who had been his father's secretary, had resigned along with his chief, somewhat foolishly as was thought at the time, and on succeeding some months later to the title, had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.