War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in…

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

— Leo Tolstoy

“War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war. Our…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

— James Mackintosh

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