Quotes About Silly

Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!

Darcy had walked away to another part of the room. She followed him with her eyes, envied everyone to whom he spoke, had scarcely patience enough to help anybody to coffee; and then was enraged against herself for being so silly!

I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptionally mature.

My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.

I am very emotional, and I get really upset when any of my films flop. I also get hurt over silly things. That is the way I am; I can't help it.

I'd been singing since I was 14 and on the road since high school, and I was very independent. Then I was Miss U.S.A. and had to have a chaperone and spent a year opening supermarkets. It was all so silly, wearing a crown and banner when it was the 1970s and women's liberation was everywhere. That was quite a stigma to overcome.

I loved the 'Three Stooges.' I still do - nyuk, nyuk.

I don't know if I'd do an action movie because I don't know if I could keep a straight face; honestly, I just think it's so silly. Like, I love watching them but I can't imagine me doing one.

To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote 'King Lear.

My dear fellow why have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are. You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I'm sorry. You do realize, don't you, that we are practically strangers? ' 'Girls often employ that specious argument on a man. Only to discover later that he was a tadpole and they were a fish in the Palazeoic age. And then they look silly.

It was some time before this happened, for he had got a very fine hand indeed. I suppose it wasn't often that the boys of Market Snodsbury Grammar School came across a man public-spirited enough to call their head master a silly ass, and they showed their appreciation in no uncertain manner. Gussie may have been one over the eight, but as far as the majority of those present were concerned he was sitting on top of the world.

The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.

I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

Oh, you stupid, if there's a right way and a wrong way, trust you to find the dumb way.

My good sir, is she your daughter then?' 'Yes, but don't pay any attention to what she says,' said the lord. 'She's a child - a silly, foolish thing.' 'Indeed,' said my lord Gawain, 'then I'd be very ill-mannered not to do what she wants.

Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in 'In Memory of WB Yeats': "You were silly like us.

in fact foppery looks to have German origins, while fond, still then commonly used as a somewhat poetic equivalent for 'silly', may be from the Norse, related for instance to the modern Icelandic fáni, which means someone who emptily swaggers. Another

At the top end you had some fairies squeeing at supersonic pitches; fairies thought all this military stuff was pretty silly, but they went along with it for the same reason that fairies ever did anything, namely, for the lulz.

fairies thought all this military stuff was pretty silly, but they went along with it for the same reason that fairies ever did anything, namely, for the lulz.

Number 12, always remember that I love you -both of you. Oh, Willie, ya silly goose!

I always listen, the duke said, annoyed. Just hang your silly, unnatural notion, that hearing means following your orders.

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.

I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.