Flippantly Quotes

#1. Thus our arrogance grows as we seek to exalt ourselves above others, as if we were different from them. Truly, there's no one who does not flippantly and boldly disregard and despise others as inferiors. Yes,

John Calvin

#2. Thanks for being here for me," she whispered.
He started to answer flippantly, but stopped when he realized how much it meant to him as well, that he could be there for her. "Anytime, babe."
And for the first time in his life, he actually meant it.

Jill Shalvis

#3. There's something inherently majestic about Christmas that seems to have been abandoned by us; something flippantly cast aside, something that was foolishly abandoned and was tragically forgotten in the abandonment.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#4. I often say flippantly that the short story is ... shorter; you can be done with it more easily. It's much less of a commitment of time and energy than a big project like a novel or long nonfiction book.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#5. He studies me thoughtfully. "You are a beautiful queen, Elisa," he says voice pitched low.
I never expected he would say such a thing. "A month or two of pastries will fix that," I say. Then I smile to show him I mean it flippantly.
His expression does not change. "Even then.

Rae Carson

#6. Actually Gabriel's an archangel," I corrected. "But otherwise, yes."
"Well, that explains why he's so hard to impress," said Xavier flippantly

Alexandra Adornetto

#7. Sorry has got to be the most over-used cliched get-out clause in the history of mankind. Tossed out flippantly without any real meaning or substance.

Siobhan Davis

#8. Kai neared his desk again, seeing that the fugitive's profile had been transferred to the screen. His frown deepened. Perhaps not dangerous, but young and inarguably good-looking. His prison photo showed him flippantly winking at the camera. Kai hated him immediately.

Marissa Meyer

#9. For years I have been accused of making snap judgments. Honestly, this is not the case because I am a profound military student and the thoughts I express, perhaps too flippantly, are the result of years of thought and study.

George S. Patton

#10. Which is more messed up- that we have so much compared to everyone else, or that we don't think we're rich? That on any given day, we might flippantly call ourselves 'broke' or 'poor?' We are neither of those things. We are rich. Filthy rich.

Francis Chan

#11. Many use the word "Kingdom" flippantly. Even though we sing about it in our praise songs, we talk about it in our sermons, yet we seem to still not understand its reality in our daily lives.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. Love. What the hell did that word even mean? It got tossed around so flippantly, by everyone. What did it really mean? After all this time and everything that had happened, was he even capable?

C.J. Roberts

#13. Now. How do I keep you?" He turned his head on the pillow, so their eyes met.
Rachel couldn't help the silly grin that came to her lips.
"Keep me?" Laughing, she scooted in close, and flippantly, she joked, "Well, you could always marry me.

Ella Frank

#14. You've both quit your jobs for me," Laura said, though a little of the sass had left her voice.
"I never liked it much anyway," Cam said flippantly. "I was only there for the nookie, and when you walked away, that dried up.

Sophie Oak

#15. When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man."

Charles Caleb Colton

#16. There are no such thing as ghosts." Joseph replied.
"There are supposedly no such things as Vampires and yet here you are." Grace quipped flippantly.

Claire E. Cruddas

#17. Her look at him was now as aggressive as his had been. 'It's all very well for you, you're a man,' she said bitterly, and entirely without coquetry; but he said flippantly, even suggestively, 'It will be all quite well for you too!

Doris Lessing

#18. It was as if nothing quite erased the initial shock of being kissed by someone who was not hers, a kiss that was stolen, claimed from her flippantly, a kiss so abrasively illicit that she seemed to deserve it, as though she was not worth much to begin with.

Suki Kim

#19. There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

Hector Hugh Munro

#20. Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly.

David Josiah Brewer

#21. Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#22. I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs and suffer such indignities and hardships.

Richard Flanagan

#23. Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the can of worms.

Julian Critchley

#24. You are meant to be, despite how you got here; you'll see someday.

Raquel Cepeda

#25. Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.

Tom Waits