Quotes About Frivolity

Yo no estoy acostumbrado a tomarme la vida a broma, querido marqués. La frivolidad no es lo mío, y menos aún en cuestión de travesuras; porque hay travesuras y bromas que deben tomarse muy, muy en serio…, o nunca saldrán bien. Una gran broma sólo llega a serlo cuando uno ha invertido en ella toda la seriedad del mundo.

Quello del saltimbanco è un mestiere in via di estinzione era solito ammettere nei suoi momenti di frivolezza. I migliori sono passati tutti alla politica.

Wisdom in the young is as unattractive as frivolity in the elderly.

Her simple, careless, childish flow of spirits often made me sad. She seemed to me like a butterfly at play in a flickering bit of sunshine, and mistaking it for broad and eternal summer. We sometimes hold mirth to stricter accountability than sorrow; it must show good cause, or the echo of its laughter comes back drearily.

No se escandalice el lector de que esta seriedad arraigue en lo frívolo; recuerde que hay grandeza en todos los delirios, fuerza en todos los excesos.

THE BEET IS THE MOST INTENSE of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.

A good laugh helps us recognize how ridiculous it is to get excited about matters that are often trivial. . . .

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

They had no more depth than their Facebook posts. Than their relentless egoism. Than their soulless frivolities.

Frivolity is the species' refusal to suffer.

The Curse has a thing for contrast: frivolity one minute, homicide the next.

responsibility itself must cohabit with frivolity, this need not be cause for gloom.

Because our hearts are frivolous and because we ignore our faults we never discover the sickness in our souls, but idly we laugh when we have full reason to weep.

El dinero dignifica lo que es frívolo si no está pagado.

The ghost of beauty, the ghost of stateliness, the ghost of elegance, the ghost of pride, the ghost of frivolity, the ghost of wit, the ghost of youth, the ghost of age, all waiting their dismissal from the desolate shore, all turning on him eyes that were changed by the death they had died in coming there.

What an idle time! What an insubstantial, happy, foolish time!

Incapaz de tolerar por más tiempo la frivolidad sin sentido de la vida de palacio, decidió dedicar su vida al cultivo del espíritu. Una noche abandonó el palacio, se deshizo de su ropa y sus adornos y se convirtió en un mendigo.

What happened to fun?" "Our insurance doesn't cover it!

...one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Can you, who have always been used to serenity and order in a family, to rational, refined, and improving conversation, relinquish them, and launch into the whirlpool of frivolity, where the correct taste and the delicate sensibility which you possess must constantly be wounded

A life devoted to trifles, not only takes away the inclination, but the capacity for higher pursuits. The truths of Christianity have scarcely more influence on a frivolous than on a profligate character.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

Comedy is such a frivolous world that it can make you addicted to the frivolity, and then a lot of people don't settle down and are still in that non-specific age maturity bracket.

you seem to be displaying signs of triviality.