Flippant Quotes
20 quotes by 20 authors
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
— William Manchester
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I love working with Erica [Durance]. She's so much fun. And I love how flippant, comfortable, and casual the relationship is. There is so much…
— Allison Mack
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I am flippant. That's one of my charms.
— Ryan O'Neal
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There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen.
— Siouxsie Sioux
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We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn't to make money. It sounds a little flippant, but it's the truth. Our goal…
— Jonathan Ive
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As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ;…
— Oswald Chambers
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It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it…
— Lee Strobel
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The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.
— Diablo Cody
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I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.
— Guy Pearce
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It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
— Rick Springfield
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Desi, Desi, Desi what am I going to do with you? (Kyrian) Don't you dare take that flippant tone with me! (Desiderius) Why ever not?…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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...people like to say things like 'all work is prostitution'. Most work is exploitation, but most work is not prostitution. Prostitution is prostitution, a very…
— Michelle Tea
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To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I made some flippant remark about not wanting my son to grow up with an American accent, and the next thing I knew, there were…
— Ashley Jensen
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People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent,…
— Anita Brookner
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It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I…
— John Bradley-West
Who Wrote These Flippant Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 20 Flippant Quotes as follows: