Frivolity Quotes
48 Frivolity quotes by 46 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
— Matthew Arnold
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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
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Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.
— Madame de Stael
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
— Edith Wharton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.
— Italo Calvino
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. . . Charles Darnay seemed to stand in a company of the dead. Ghosts all! The ghost of beauty, the ghost of stateliness, the…
— Charles Dickens
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Frivolity Quotes
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