Frivolity Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Frivolity Serious Youth
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Copy Share Image
A huge part of youth is how you behave: I'm always looking for fun and anything that makes me feel alive - that in… — Martine McCutcheon Copy Share Image
It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
If the youth has a good foundation, then I think they won't grow into the bad situations they get into. — Ed Reed Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was… — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity. — Alexander Girard Copy Share Image
We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
