Frivolity Quotes
48 quotes by 46 authors
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.
— Sofia Coppola
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The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who want to enjoy…
— Swami Vivekananda
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My idea of elegance – and this refers to women as well as men – is that someone is elegant when he or she shows…
— Stefano Pilati
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The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old.…
— Jamie Lee Curtis
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To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as…
— Christopher Hitchens
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We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up…
— Philip Larkin
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It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately…
— Imelda Marcos
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The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which…
— Che Guevara
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The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.
— Che Guevara
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The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their…
— Che Guevara
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Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.
— James Laver
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O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel!…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.
— Bill Griffith
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The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most…
— Henry Walter Bates
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Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their love…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.
— Alexander Girard
Who Wrote These Frivolity Quotes
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