Frivolous Quotes

134 Frivolous quotes by 123 unique authors

I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous. — Sebastian Faulks
Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes. — Philip Treacy
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless. — Evelyn Waugh
With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely. — Mary McCarthy
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter. — Bernard Malamud
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. — Angela Carter
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. — Sophie Swetchine
It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what… — William Cobbett
Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the… — Conrad Burns
I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want… — Sharon Creech
If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to… — Marcia Cross
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read… — Alexandra Fuller
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be… — Alan Bradley
To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious. — Soren Kierkegaard
I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about… — Prabal Gurung
Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to… — George Washington
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip. — Bill Ayers
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to satisfy… — John Kenneth Galbraith
A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have… — Lillian Hellman
One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious. — Susan Sontag
Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in… — Milton H. Erickson
Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history. — Robert Genn
Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually. — Frederick Lenz
Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life… — C.S. Lewis

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