I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity. — Alexander Girard Copy Share Image
“There is so much pressure on us to try to overcome boredom by spending time on frivolities.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion…But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in… — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
“From my personal experiences, it is evident that so many wealthy females within the kingdom are devoted to little else but frivolity,… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our… — James Laver Copy Share Image
“I know so much pressure is on all of us to waste time and to just trivialize it. There is so much… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“As one who appreciated the tragic side of eating, it seemed to him that anything other than fruit for dessert implied a… — Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Copy Share Image
It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My idea of elegance – and this refers to women as well as men – is that someone is elegant when he… — Stefano Pilati Copy Share Image
Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“We may yet become the first nation to die from a terminal case of frivolity. Other great nations in history have been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back,… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“It is at these troubled periods that frivolity, even license, are most easily understood, "because one enjoys with gusto what tomorrow may… — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
Comedy is such a frivolous world that it can make you addicted to the frivolity, and then a lot of people don't… — Ivo Graham Copy Share Image
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing,… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure.… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts.… — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
I think the essence of fashion is lightness, frivolity, and I'm very nostalgic for the time when Bérard was doing the windows,… — Ines de La Fressange Copy Share Image
A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it.… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“Can you, who have always been used to serenity and order in a family, to rational, refined, and improving conversation, relinquish them,… — Hannah Foster Copy Share Image
