Dramatic Quote by Edith Wharton

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.

— Madame de Stael

As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

— Akiva Goldsman

“The dramatic and the sensational seldom yield the treasures of enlightenment that the commonplace and the unpretentious often harbour unsuspected. For being as much…

— Louise de Kiriline Lawrence

Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes the bull…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some…

— Chris Van Allsburg

The imposition of anomalous models and lifestyles are alien to people's identity and, in the end, are irresponsible.

— Pope Francis

The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable…

— D. H. Lawrence

A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of…

— Theodore Kaczynski

The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.

— Duane Elgin

“However, there have always been “society pedagogues”, less outstanding but more numerous, who have become fascinated by their own great ideas, which might, sometimes,…

— Andrzej Lobaczewski

Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.

— Alan Weisman