Quotes About Flippant

People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening.

Excuse my dust.

I am flippant. That's one of my charms.

That's a rather flippant quote "drinking and writing bad poetry" from me. I mean, I said it, but I was doing other stuff too. I certainly didn't manage the full stretch of four years.

He did not mind being flippant about New York, but disliked to hear any one else take the same tone.

All of your sarcastic— Multilayered. —answers will not help your cause. You're very flippant about these proceedings.

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

What did I glean ?" "I'm not trying to be flippant. Just - did he tell you anything about himself?" "He hates Sesame Street ." "We'll need more than that when we're eventually put on the stand for this.

He cut out one quip from his September speech as just too flippant: he had been going to say, 'Our destroyers then engaged that particular submarine, and all that thereafter was seen of the vessel was a large spot of oil and a door which floated up to the surface bearing my initials.

It seems to me that the English are never serious--they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening.

She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it.

I've always been a bit flip.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

If you take 'Agni Natchathiram,' it is about two half-brothers and their emotions and those are genuine, which can be made into a very hard-hitting film just that it can be presented in an entertaining fashion. Similarly with 'OK Kanmani,' it is a genuine film; it is not a flippant film just for commercial purposes.

Sounds charming,' I said impatiently. But I didn't come here to talk about the end of the world.' 'Really?' He tipped his hat up and looked at me. 'By the expression on that pretty face of yours, I'd have thought it was at least that.' I snorted impatiently. 'If you're going to be flippant-' 'What? You'll give me a kiss? Then I'll be as flippant as I can possibly be.

One other thing," Commissioner Lewis said. The detectives sank back in their seats. "I have heard officers in this command referring to the killer as the 'Tooth Fairy.' I don't care what you call him among yourselves, I realize you have to call him something. But I had better not hear any police officer refer to him as the Tooth Fairy in public. It sounds flippant. Neither will you use that name on any internal memoranda.

My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

I have been in love with Emily Dickinson's poetry since I was 13, and, like an anonymous post on findagrave.com says, 'Dear Emily - I hope I have understood.' Emily's poems are sometimes difficult, often abstract, on occasion flippant, but her mind is inside them.

When a sensible woman has a reasonable question put to her, and evades it by a flippant answer, it is a sure sign, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, that she has something to conceal.

The more earnest people got, the more flippant she became. It was a flaw.

Pride and Prejudice is realistic, questioning, and sometimes flippant, even cynical--but Arcadia is always just about to happen. Some very tough truths are told in this novel in which everyone goes wrong, but our hearts are light as we read because we are never far from the land of green promise.