Frivolous Quotes

134 Frivolous quotes by 123 unique authors

You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly… — Louisa May Alcott
Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for. — Virginia Woolf
Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings. — Alan Weisman
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
Bunny slippers remind me of who I am.You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective… — Dean Koontz
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. — Edith Wharton
How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth… — Margaret Atwood
I can't help but see myself in them. The Seelie are who I was before my sister died. Pink, pretty, frivolous Mac. The Unseelie are… — Karen Marie Moning
... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests… — Jean Webster
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial. — Charlotte Bronte
Why do you persist in being so frivolous, Urgit?" "Why don't we just call it a symptom of my incipient madness?" "You're not going to… — David Eddings
As we drove uptown, I spotted a Kmart on a corner,with its familiar red sign.I cleared my throat."Wait. Can we stop for a minute?" "What… — L.A. Weatherly
She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments. — P.G. Wodehouse
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I… — Marge Piercy
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
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
So our ego has to be seen. It is to be watched in a witness state, how it works and how it tries to dissuade… — Nirmala Srivastava
It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous… — Eugene Jarecki
If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or… — Saul Griffith
Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public. — Linda Ronstadt
Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless kids… — Robin Marantz Henig
This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits… — Bob Ney
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do. — Richard Steele
Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it. — Kelly Ayotte
When Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio cracked down on illegal immigration without getting permission from Obama, they threatened to revoke his 287(g) status. When… — Russell Pearce

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