Quotes About Frivolous

If Zendegi was a frivolous indulgence, well, it was there alongside every other beautiful, forbidden thing that her contemporaries have risked their lives to regain

Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it.

Our culture often demeans and devalues the work, the pleasures, and the contributions of women and feminine people. This is, in part, why beauty culture is dismissed as unimportant and frivolous.

I don't think 'Befikre' is frivolous at all. Yes, the film is light-hearted. Shyra and Dharam are free-spirited but that doesn't mean they are obnoxious.

Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit ridden, I let it reform.

What affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

One likes to hear what is going on, to be au fait as to the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

Allow me to say, Lady Catherine, that the arguments with which you have supported this extraordinary application have been as frivolous as the application was ill-judged. You have widely mistaken my character, if you think I can be worked on by such persuasions as these.

We kind of have a cranky side of ourselves, so when people get upset about what we're doing, we kind of feel that we're on the right track. But it's really difficult using humor in pop music. Sometimes it can appear that you're frivolous or there isn't any depth in what you're doing. But we always tried to have humor anyway.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

she lived a life almost obsessively devoted to triviality. She'd turned into a pond skater, not because she didn't know what lay beneath the surface, but precisely because she did.

In a weird way, fashion, which is frivolous to the core, shouldn't be taken seriously, but thank God people do: it makes for great people-watching.

War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to realize this and not make a game of it... as it stands now it's the favorite pastime of the idle and frivolous.

Happiness may be powerfully exuberant or softly joyful. Happiness may be as light and frivolous as a bubble.

Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life we were placed here to live. But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

People say we're just Renaissancites causing trouble, but I've seen Baroque kids, Raphaelites, Romantics and Mannerists here tonight. It's a massive show of classical artistic unity against these frivolous bastards who cower beneath the safety of the word 'progress.' It's not just—

World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.

I don't believe in lawsuits much. I think there are enough frivolous lawsuits in this country without people fighting over pop songs.

It's just another party," Clearsight said, laughing. "The queen seems to have one every other night. There's a full moon, let's celebrate! A second full moon, celebrate again! Her oldest son's hatching day, time for a party! One of her daughters sneezed, someone alert the chefs we need a cake! It's kind of exhausting.

Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.

Better farPursue a frivolous trade by serious means, Than a sublime art frivolously.

Why do you persist in being so frivolous, Urgit? Why don't we just call it a symptom of my incipient madness? You're not going to go mad, she said firmly. Of course I'm going to go mad, mother. I'm rather looking forward to it.

Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men When for so slight and frivolous a cause Such factious emulations shall arise!

What place indeed is there in the shallow petty frivolous thing called society for noble thoughts and feelings?