Vivacity Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
— Joseph Addison
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I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
— Danny Boyle
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their…
— Samuel Johnson
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As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of men.
— Joseph Addison
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Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely…
— Charles Dickens
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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in…
— Ambrose Bierce
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No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental. That is not…
— Margo Jefferson
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind,…
— Nicolas Malebranche
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A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
— William Hazlitt
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Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.
— David Hume
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I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.
— Daniel Woodrell
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The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly…
— Madame de Stael
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Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in…
— Dorothy Parker
Who Wrote These Vivacity Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Vivacity Quotes as follows: