Being silly Quote by Jane Austen

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

— Jane Austen

“I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certain silly things cease to be silly if done by sensible people in…

— Jane Austen

“Certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

— Jane Austen

One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.

— Anonymous

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

— Jane Austen

Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig,"…

— Zig Ziglar

None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time

— Jude Morgan

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally.

— Anuj

The word 'silly' derives from the Greek 'selig' meaning 'blessed.' There is something sacred in being able to be silly.

— Paul Pearsall

It is yet better to do something different in life even if being called silly by fools than to do nothing even silly and…

— Anuj Somany

If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein