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Quotes About Silly

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
~ Angela Carter
Oh dear," said Sarah anxiously, "I do wish he wouldn't do these silly things." I'm sure we all wish that, Sarah," said Marcia sternly. "But unfortunately he has progressed rather further than the silly stage. Evil-minded-scheming stage is more what I would call it.
~ Angie Sage
It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.
~ Alain de Botton
I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.
~ Harriet Walter
I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.
~ Dane Cook
I know this perfectly well, but it was precisely this that I liked - her thinking me silly. Such a peculiar vice: to be secretly pleased to be allowed to observe that one is being slightly robbed.
~ Robert Walser
Yes. Isn't it … silly … how … upsetting … just thinking can be?" "It's not silly at all. The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.
~ Robin McKinley
Oh, there's no use talking to him. He's perfectly idiotic!
~ Lewis Caroll
Oh, you foolish
~ Lewis Carroll
Robot. Is. Sad. Because silly bitch. Will. Not. Dance.
~ Libba Bray
I'm calling the police, she said, showing him the phone in her hand. He smiled, and for a moment she forgot about the phone. You don't need the police. No, of course she didn't How silly.
~ Linda Howard
In meditation have a complete focus on light, brightness, spiritual oneness, God, infinity, eternity. You know - silly things.
~ Frederick Lenz
Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
~ Boris Becker
It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, and sometime criminal ways that are so characteristically human.
~ Aldous Huxley
The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.
~ Aleister Crowley
All this talk about 'suffering humanity' is principally drivel based on the error of transferring one's own psychology to one's neighbour. The Golden Rule is silly. If Lord Alfred Douglas (for example) did to others what he would like them to do to him, many would resent his action.
~ Aleister Crowley
The church today is dominated by this theology of silly women.
~ Douglas Wilson
I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.
~ Joan Cusack
Things had changed between us in a profound way, something I think we both knew. All our fighting and nitpicking seemed so silly now. So did my endless agonizing about whether or not I should be with him. Once a man disposes of a body for you, the moral high ground has been lost.
~ Joanna Wylde
There is a legend. And to protest is daft.
~ Peter O'Toole
I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educated bloke. There is a reputation with that of being slightly stiff, but whoever gets to know me will see some other element - whether it be vulnerable or silly or camp.
~ Elliot Cowan
I think if you're gonna do something as silly and lighthearted as entertainment, then why not be interesting when you're doing it?
~ Chelsea Handler
I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart. I love to do a show, do something with friends; I'm kind of a nerd in that way. I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance.
~ Tom Lenk
Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
~ Barry Levinson