Quotes About Frivolity

Gol guppas are a strange food: I have never located an equivalent to them or their culinary situation. They are an outdoor food, a passing whim, and no one would dream of recreating their frivolity inside her own kitchen. A gol guppa is a small hollow oval of the lightest pastry that is dipped into a fiery liquid sauce made of tamarind and cayenne and lemon and cold water. It is evidently a food invented as a joke, in a moment of good humor.

La frivolidad consiste en tener una tabla de valores invertida o desequilibrada en la que la forma importa más que el contenido, la apariencia más que la esencia y en la que el gesto y el desplante —la representación— hacen las veces de sentimientos e ideas.

as he cared no longer for the light that lies in a lady's eye, there was not much left to him in the world but cards and racing.

I was hurt by their lack of trust in my stability. Perhaps they were right? But I also believed they were wrong, narrow and snobbish. They had confused lightness of heart with frivolity. I was not downcast or aggrieved. Rather to my surprise I was excited.

There is a care for trifles which proceeds from love of conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base.

he had found compromise and the assaulting diversion of triviality.

I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.

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

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

They moved about, and they said the same dull things they say anywhere. I suppose they thought the lights would make it brilliant." "Darling, you take everything too seriously. One is not supposed to be intellectual at a ball. One is simply supposed to be gay." "How? By being stupid?

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

The amount of silliness that happens to me is insane.

Hollywood is silly sometimes.

Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.

Champagne's completely useless, you know," he said. "The only good part is the moment you pop the cork.

You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity.

You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion, but I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.

María Antonieta charla exclusivamente con la boca, y no con la cabeza.

His face, which Romulan could not see, was enigmatic and unreadable. At such moments, Mercurio was at his most transparent, for enigma was his mask, as was frivolity. One might look closely and perceive trouble somewhere in the eyes, and some conceit of age. He was twenty-two, his spirit far older. And this spirit with a sure psychic awareness, had now tensed with him.

For all its cleanliness — not a weed in sight — the place was bankrupt of anything beautiful. But it wasn't just the orphanage. All the surrounding buildings were dismal gray, as though beauty were a frivolity of the rich.

An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.

Charles threw down the knife. Its thud was lost in the high-spirited bedlam of young men let loose upon a task so gruesome, the only sane response was perverse frivolity.

It was borrowed time anyway—the whole upper tenth of a nation living with the insouciance of a grand duc and the casualness of chorus girls.