Frivolity Quotes - Page 2

• Frivolity is the species' refusal to suffer.

  John Lahr

  Suffering, Refusal, Species

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• The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.

  Che Guevara

  Intelligent, Lazy, Organized

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• And our dreams,
  with what frivolity we have pared them
  like toenails, clipped them like ends of
  split hair.

  Denise Levertov

  Dream, Hair, Splits

  Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Paul A. Lacey (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.42, New Directions Publishing

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• The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Reflection, Games, Chess

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.28, Prestwick House Inc

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• A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.

  Florence Nightingale

  Light, Break Through, Habit

  Florence Nightingale (1991). “Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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• The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.

  Moss Hart

  Theatre, Behavior, Theater

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.

  Imelda Marcos

  Beautiful, Art, Real

  "Imelda". Documentary, Biography, 2003.

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• Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.

  Ilka Chase

  Differences, Littles, Results

  Ilka Chase (1946). “I love Miss Tilli Bean”

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• We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do. And you've got to understand the price you pay for frivolity or just for greed - it's a very high price, especially if you're involved in this sacred material, which is about the human heart and human desire and human tragedy.

  Leonard Cohen

  Heart, Hands, Greed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.

  James Laver

  Mean, Clothes, Clothing Style

  James Laver (1969). “Modesty in Dress: An Inquiry Into the Fundamentals of Fashion”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Order, People, World

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• If you go on a mission to preach the gospel with lightness and frivolity in your hearts, looking for this and that, and to learn what is in the world, and not having your minds riveted - yes, I may say riveted - on the cross of Christ, you will go and return in vain...Let your minds be centered on your missions, and labor earnestly to bring souls to Christ.

  Brigham Young

  Heart, Soul, Mind

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• And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought such wondrous treasures-an unfailing fountain of intellectual enjoyment, where all may drink, and be awakened to a deeper feeling of the works of genius, and a keener perception of the beauty of our existence. For those whose days are all consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolities of fashion, unobservant of nature's loveliness, are unconscious of the harmony of creation

  Thomas Cole

  Fashion, Nature, Feelings

  Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”

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• So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Kings, Spring

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• This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.

  Willa Cather

  Summer, Lying, Reality

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.463, eBookIt.com

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• The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who want to enjoy the world a little with its frivolities? Just as our religion takes in all, so should our society. This is to be worked out by first understanding the true principles of our religion and then applying them to society. This is the slow but sure work to be done.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Crush, Spiritual, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1993, Manonmani Publishers

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• Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially extended by long years of education, much of it wasted on frivolities. Tenure extends adolescence even further for teachers and professors.

  Thomas Sowell

  Teacher, Responsibility, Years

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• My idea of elegance – and this refers to women as well as men – is that someone is elegant when he or she shows a good knowledge of what fits them, where you can find naturalness and self-esteem. Not showing off. Elegance is the idea of showing an optimistic depiction of oneself, and to lose oneself in the frivolity of style and fashion.

  Stefano Pilati

  Fashion, Self Esteem, Optimistic

  "The End of Elegance". Interview with Costantino Della Gherardesca, www.vice.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous number of good books waiting to be read, leaving little time for frivolity. My personal list of must-read books presents a daunting challenge; I can't even imagine the pressure our head librarian must be under.

  Lynn Austin

  Believe, Book, Numbers

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• The next day brought more visitors. Sarah was eating a simple luncheon with Charis, Ariel, and Guinevere and was experiencing for the first time in her life the pleasure of talking freely with other girls she trusted. It wasn't that they talked about anything of importance. Indeed, most of their conversation was hopelessly trivial- Mordecai would have shaken his head sadly over such frivolity, Sarah reflected with an inward smile. But to talk so openly, and to laugh so unrestrainedly, was somehow far more significant than any single thing that was said.

  Gerald Morris

  Girl, Simple, Talking

  Gerald Morris (2004). “The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-cart Knight”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hurt, Pain, Cities

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• The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.

  Akio Morita

  Fate, Bonus, Share

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 187), 1986.

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• We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hero, Humorous, Knights

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• By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Beginners, Way

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.37, Kodansha International

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• Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Heart, Men, Mind

  "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman" by Sarah Moore Grimke, Letter 8, 1837.

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