Top 42 Quotes About Vivacity

#1. Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.

Madame De Stael

Quotes About Vivacity #10481
#2. Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

Richard Whately

Quotes About Vivacity #98727
#3. In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

Bill Brandt

Quotes About Vivacity #104442
#4. Why, you're not crippled, you just have a little defect - hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it - develop charm - and vivacity - and - charm!

Tennessee Williams

Quotes About Vivacity #110038
#5. I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.

Nicolas Malebranche

Quotes About Vivacity #153492
#6. Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the place of both qualities - something best described as a profound vivacity, a continual and sincere response to all that she encountered in her path through life.

E. M. Forster

Quotes About Vivacity #282629
#7. PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

Ambrose Bierce

Quotes About Vivacity #388947
#8. You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her, especially when tempered with the silence and respect which her rank will inevitably excite.

Jane Austen

Quotes About Vivacity #425129
#9. I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

Daniel Woodrell

Quotes About Vivacity #432675
#10. I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

Samuel Johnson

Quotes About Vivacity #457906
#11. For many introverts like David, adolescence is the great stumbling place, the dark and tangled thicket of low self-esteem and social unease. In middle and high school, the main currency is vivacity and gregariousness; attributes like depth and sensitivity don't count for much.

Susan Cain

Quotes About Vivacity #482217
#12. There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde; which, in the commerce of world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour, but is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character.

Washington Irving

Quotes About Vivacity #499948
#13. Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Quotes About Vivacity #621747
#14. The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Quotes About Vivacity #626659
#15. Know-it-all", another name
used by (some) who would shame
Feeling bad about their
own lack in vivacity
of curiosity.

Cheri Bauer

Quotes About Vivacity #669077
#16. Swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.

Mary Collyer

Quotes About Vivacity #684834
#17. As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of men.

Joseph Addison

Quotes About Vivacity #715397
#18. Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes About Vivacity #763318
#19. We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.

William Hazlitt

Quotes About Vivacity #802360
#20. Sayeed was a quiet man - not awkward, as Arbeely could be, but possessed of a calm and steady nature that complemented his wife's heartfelt vivacity.

Helene Wecker

Quotes About Vivacity #899558
#21. Such is the irony of life on earth; that living in extreme simplicity free from indulgence turns this persecuted Middle Eastern fatherless carpenter, into the definition of vivacity, and one of the most recognized names in the world.

Sayed Mahdi Modarresi

Quotes About Vivacity #910541
#22. You know how we're thinking about food these days, less in terms of carbs and calories than in terms of color, vivacity, and life force? We can do the same with time. Then it's no longer about having enough of it but about infusing color and vivacity and life force into every moment. (279)

Victoria Moran

Quotes About Vivacity #993181
#23. The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Quotes About Vivacity #1019640
#24. My most genuine gratitude to the Universe was unleashed as I watched you. My enthusiastic curiosity fuelled by your vivacity.

Cheri Bauer

Quotes About Vivacity #1114801
#25. There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Quotes About Vivacity #1131339
#26. All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities, the note concludes.
This is surely true. Yet the vivacity with which he embraces ruin is unexampled, in my experience.

Donald Barthelme

Quotes About Vivacity #1131709
#27. It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

Lord Chesterfield

Quotes About Vivacity #1243249
#28. To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Joseph Addison

Quotes About Vivacity #1253032
#29. Knowing as we must, how the vivacity of what was is married to the vitality of what will be? I don't say it's easy, but what else will do

Mary Oliver

Quotes About Vivacity #1277334
#30. Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

Dorothy Parker

Quotes About Vivacity #1320473
#31. Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

Honore De Balzac

Quotes About Vivacity #1407047
#32. Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humor, vivacity, or the capacity for enjoyment.

Charles Dickens

Quotes About Vivacity #1478072
#33. Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

Joseph Addison

Quotes About Vivacity #1536086
#34. What matters is not eternal life, but eternal vivacity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Quotes About Vivacity #1556742
#35. The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

Isaac D'Israeli

Quotes About Vivacity #1570337
#36. Through the door came a being of intense vivacity, impeccable sartorial integrity, and intermittent intelligibility.

Terry Bisson

Quotes About Vivacity #1589278
#37. Just think of the color and vivacity that love can bring back into your life. "You know, they say there are seventeen shades of love!"
"Seventeen shades?" Julia sobbed even louder. "What am I supposed to do with that?

Olga Toprover

Quotes About Vivacity #1599428
#38. I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

Danny Boyle

Quotes About Vivacity #1725401
#39. The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Isaac D'Israeli

Quotes About Vivacity #1744720
#40. Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.

David Hume

Quotes About Vivacity #1758149
#41. Christians who like to write might do as a description of the genus. But the actual species shared more precise characteristics, including intellectual vivacity, love of death, conservative politics, memories of war, and a passion for beef, beer, and verbal battle.

Philip Zaleski

Quotes About Vivacity #1759716
#42. who would cry out to the petals on the ground to stay, knowing as we must, how the vivacity of what was is married to the vivacity of what will be?

Mary Oliver

Quotes About Vivacity #1817681

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top