The frivolous work of polished idleness.

The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the…

— Marcel Proust

It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was…

— Winston Churchill

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

— Walter Scott

I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is…

— Tom Petty

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

— Anonymous

I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.

— Lauren Mayberry

“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly…

— Laurie Cabot

Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I didn't grow up reading magazines; I was very much in an environment where that would have been deemed trivial, frivolous.

— Dervla Kirwan

Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their…

— Anonymous