Frivolity Quotes

48 Frivolity quotes by 46 unique authors

The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate… — Edgar Allan Poe
If you go on a mission to preach the gospel with lightness and frivolity in your hearts, looking for this and that, and to learn… — Brigham Young
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the… — Saint Basil
Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity. — Matthew Arnold
He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure… — Frances Power Cobbe
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth. — Madame de Stael
So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that… — Michelangelo
This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over… — Willa Cather
The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the… — Tom Robbins
A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties',… — Florence Nightingale
We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity… — Cynthia Heimel
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive — Karl Lagerfeld
Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. — Edith Wharton
When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems… — Sarah Addison Allen
The next day brought more visitors. Sarah was eating a simple luncheon with Charis, Ariel, and Guinevere and was experiencing for the first time in… — Gerald Morris
Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to… — Brandon Mull
a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto… — E E Cummings
Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous number of good… — Lynn Austin
Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy. — Italo Calvino
. . . Charles Darnay seemed to stand in a company of the dead. Ghosts all! The ghost of beauty, the ghost of stateliness, the… — Charles Dickens
You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing… — Jonathan Miller
There's no truth whatsoever to that statement. That's just frivolity on behalf of some unscrupulous clowns. What I'm interested to know is why they would… — Vybz Kartel

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