Top 100 Quotes About Frivolous
#1. My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
Evelyn Waugh
#2. The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.
C.P. Cavafy
#3. This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
Bob Ney
#4. My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.
Scott McCloud
#5. It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?
Jonathan Miller
#6. There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.
Marcia Wallace
#7. I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
Stanley Kubrick
#8. But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#9. If you were to be stranded on a desert island, what three items would you take? I gave this frivolous answer: A cat, a hat and a piece of string.
Joanne Harris
#10. To surround yourself with beauty isn't frivolous. It's a necessity. If it weren't, then our cities would not be surrounded with art museums and parks.
Charlotte Symonds
#11. To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.
Soren Kierkegaard
#12. I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new social networks or new games, instead of inventing the cures for cancer or fundamental technologies that will change the world.
Charles Duhigg
#13. I can't know entirely what's at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a poem, for instance, that starts with something seemingly frivolous or inconsequential and then grows in gravity until by the end it's something very serious.
James Tate
#14. The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#15. In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour.
Philippe Halsman
#16. The flowered trim on the hems [of the dress] seemed superfluous, even frivolous, but at the same time it comforted her, as though the idea that a seamstress had thought to adorn clothing so innocently implied that somewhere, innocence was safe.
Gael Baudino
#17. Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen
#18. Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to satisfy them. But the case cannot stand if it is the process of satisfying wants that create the wants.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#19. I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.
Jonathan Miller
#20. How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#21. If you felt like a smoke and couldn't find a pipe, a book was your man every time. Cohen realized people wrote things in books. It had always seemed to him to be a frivolous waste of paper.
Terry Pratchett
#22. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#23. The fight against bad English is not frivolous.
George Orwell
#24. Because our hearts are frivolous and because we ignore our faults we never discover the sickness in our souls, but idly we laugh when we have full reason to weep.
Thomas A Kempis
#25. This free use of the line for flirtation purposes has grown to an alarming extent," he wrote, "and if it is to go on somebody must pay for it." The Bell companies tried to discourage frivolous telephony, particularly by women and servants.
James Gleick
#26. She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.
P.G. Wodehouse
#27. Frivolous Gossip and Poetry
It's just so much frivolous gossip to dwell upon the moral merits of a poet;
what should only concern the reader is the merit of his words.
Leave moral judgments to the preachers and aesthetic judgments to the critical readers.
Beryl Dov
#28. For the critics who think Chesterton frivolous or 'paradoxical' I have to work hard to feel even pity; sympathy is out of the question.
C.S. Lewis
#29. It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.
Eugene Jarecki
#30. Tea at the Ritz is the last delicious morsel of Edwardian London. The light is kind, the cakes are frivolous and the tempo is calm, confident and leisurely.
Helen Simpson
#31. If owning frivolous articles of excess were indeed the trappings of malevolence, my home was ready to play host to the Axis powers.
Michael Gurnow
#32. Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
Philip Treacy
#33. Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public.
Linda Ronstadt
#34. I think my generation has had an unbelievably easy time profiting from the world that was made for us by our parents and grandparents. We are essentially a rather frivolous generation. The Blair government was my generation's shot at power. It had some good things, but it had some flaws.
Sebastian Faulks
#35. ...shiny trinkets and frivolous spending make people forget what world they're living in.
Beth Lewis
#36. But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.
Bill Ayers
#38. 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
#39. Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.
Gilles Menage
#40. Father Brown got to his feet, putting his hands behind him. 'Odd, isn't it,' he said, 'that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?
G.K. Chesterton
#41. Being taken seriously means missing out on the chance to be frivolous, promiscuous, and irrelevant. The desire to be taken seriously is precisely what compels people to follow the tried and true paths of knowledge production around which I would like to map a few detours.
J. Jack Halberstam
#42. Fortunately, I had a believable, if utterly frivolous excuse for what we would have been doing out in Lafayette: There's this ice cream company called Jeni's? They're from Ohio?
Mira Grant
#43. The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert Schweitzer
#44. The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down.
Lynn Coady
#45. Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.
Laura Joh Rowland
#46. I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.
Anna Sui
#47. When Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio cracked down on illegal immigration without getting permission from Obama, they threatened to revoke his 287(g) status. When Sheriff Joe refused to balk, they filed suit against him with a frivolous civil rights claim.
Russell Pearce
#49. Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.
Maajid Nawaz
#50. The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.
John Ruskin
#51. Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.
Luc De Clapiers
#52. Why do you persist in being so frivolous, Urgit?"
"Why don't we just call it a symptom of my incipient madness?"
"You're not going to go mad," she said firmly.
"Of course I'm going to go mad, mother. I'm rather looking forward to it.
David Eddings
#53. An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity
the endless flow of life and death
than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.
Eric Hoffer
#54. I find nothing more frightening than a man trying to do what he has decided is important. Very little in the world has ever gone astray - at least on a grand scale - because a person decided to be frivolous
Brandon Sanderson
#55. As of today, I rebel against death! Work seems frivolous; I'm a proud man, and a lifetime's work would be too brief an agony for me. At the last moment, I'd attack ... to the right ... to the left ... And then - oh! - sweet old soul of mine, eternity would not have been wasted on us!
Arthur Rimbaud
#56. I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
Louisa May Alcott
#57. I find awards frivolous. When I began my career, I was told that I deserved an award for a certain performance, but then I couldn't turn up on the day of the show. Then I was told that the award went to someone else. That's when I realised the truth behind it all.
Emraan Hashmi
#58. I would much prefer to enlarge your life by giving you the gift of my life, rather than gifting your life to material obesity with frivolous trinkets.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#59. Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#60. I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.
Michele Bachmann
#61. I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want to reassure young readers. I want to comfort them, to not fear the unexpected.
Sharon Creech
#62. Simon Monjack had nothing to do with 'Factory Girl.' He filed a frivolous lawsuit against us ... making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He held us literally to hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel.
George Hickenlooper
#63. The joy you find as a teen, however frivolous and dumb, is pure and meaningful.
Goldy Moldavsky
#64. Give yourself permission to stop existing and start growing. We all need more than work for self-actualization. Remember that interests and hobbies aren't frivolous; they're necessary for fulfillment and health.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#65. Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. I don't allow flying nuns in my convent," she said. "They tend to be frivolous, and during night flight, they're prone to crashing through windows.
Dean Koontz
#67. Because we had no money when I was growing up, when I started dancing, I wasn't allowed to be frivolous - my mum made me go to every lesson because she was paying for it.
Anton Du Beke
#68. I don't fly to the classics for comfort, as Giles does. I'm too frivolous. Worthy people always read the classics when things are difficult.
Elizabeth Goudge
#69. The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very nature, it makes some kind of social comment.
Gene Kelly
#70. There is a growing belief, particularly among those belonging to the fifty-plus age group, that recently married people seem to be tripping over themselves to divorce each other. And often, for frivolous reasons!
Vijay Nagaswami
#71. When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious
they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#72. There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and
shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you
know ain't so'.
Mark Twain
#74. False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.
Jean De La Bruyere
#75. I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
Angela Carter
#76. A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#77. I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.
Lee Hall
#78. I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.
Andrea Riseborough
#79. Old cheerful songs about frivolous things that mean nothing to me.
Lauren DeStefano
#81. But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker ... it would stop the radical environmental lawyers from delaying for years with frivolous lawsuits the leasing of the property.
Jim DeMint
#82. There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.
Tadashi Suzuki
#83. The steady and undissipated attention to one object is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
#84. I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.
Taylor Momsen
#85. Typical frivolous always ended by sacrificing to vulgar pleasures. She
Henry James
#86. If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.
Marcia Cross
#87. The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
Madame De Stael
#88. Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.
Rick Perry
#89. I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.
Christopher Hitchens
#90. I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.
Sebastian Faulks
#91. One of the things he likes about Justineau is her seriousness. He frigging flatout hates frivolous, thoughtless people who dance across the surface of the world without looking down.
M.R. Carey
#92. Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.
Mason Cooley
#93. Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.
Mason Cooley
#94. Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
Hans Hofmann
#95. She felt about her zester the way some women do about a pair of spiky red shoes
a frivolous splurge, good only for parties, but oh so lovely.
Erica Bauermeister
#97. Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.
Mary Quant
#98. For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
Charlotte Bronte
#99. If Zendegi was a frivolous indulgence, well, it was there alongside every other beautiful, forbidden thing that her contemporaries have risked their lives to regain
Greg Egan
#100. It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.
Richard Steele
