Quotes About Frivolity

In a world of physical ease, brutal social equality, and reasonable economic equality, exclusiveness in frivolity becomes the most sought-after of all distinctions.

I'm not a prosecutor at home. I don't talk about my day, because nobody's interested. I might do something frivolous, like bead.

I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive

No, my life has been passed in frivolity; I wish to forget it myself.

The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.

This I do, being mad: Gather baubles about me, Sit in a circle of toys, and all the time Death beating the door in.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Curates are such triflers.

We are so trivial by nature that only amusements can stop us from dying for real.

Somos, por naturaleza, tan fútiles, que solo las distracciones pueden impedirnos de verdad morir.

Nous sommes, par nature, si futiles, que seules les distractions peuvent nous empêcher vraiment de mourir.

Ebbene signor Meis,il destino di Roma è identico.I papi ne avevano fatto a modo loro,s'intende un'acquasantiera;noi italiani ne abbiamo fatto,a modo nostro,un portacenere.D'ogni paese siamo venuti qua a scuotervi la cenere del nostro sigaro,che è poi il simbolo della frivolezza di questa miserrima vita nostra e dell'amaro e velenoso piacere che essa ci da.

As we shall see, the tractable apostrophe has always done its proper jobs in our language with enthusiasm and elegance, but it has never been taken seriously enough; its talent for adaptability has been cruelly taken for granted; and now, in an age of supreme graphic frivolity, we pay the price.

Ah! were you careful to tie me to the cliff of your frivolity, your indifference, or your agitation?

Jer kad ?emo mi civilizirana bi?a postati ozbiljni? upitao je Kierkegaard. Tek pošto dokraja i temeljito upoznamo pakao. Bez toga ?e hedonizam i lakomislenost proširiti pakao na sve naše dane.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

Era dunque, malgrado le sue qualità, un uomo frivolo, superficiale, un organismo animale che grondava sudori e fluidi e si lasciava alle spalle, come il residuo di un piacere distratto, materia viva concepita, nutrita, formata dentro ventri femminili.

My father says that surviving a war makes you either very bitter or very frivolous.

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.

So saith Solomon, Where much is, there are many to consume it; and what hath the owner, but the sight of it with his eyes? The personal fruition in any man, cannot reach to feel great riches: there is a custody of them; or a power of dole, and donative of them; or a fame of them; but no solid use to the owner. Do you not see what feigned prices, are set upon little stones and rarities? and what works of ostentation are undertaken, because there might seem to be some use of great riches?

He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash.