Quotes About Childishness

The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up.

Is it faith? Or is it simply childishness, expecting to be loved for doing your bidden task? It is, if you're looking for the psychological explanation, childish and classically depressive.

It is a pity that there was no Dostoevsky living near this most interesting decadent [Jesus], I mean someone with an eye for the distinctive charm that this sort of mixture of sublimity, sickness, and childishness has to offer.

You must never lose that touch of childishness. You need it if you wish to write for children, if you wish to understand the heart of a child. Children are good, you see. And they expect good.

The kind of boy's club I'm used to? It is definitely not a jock-y, frat-y kind of thing. They say, 'I'm sensitive and nerdy,' but actually, it's like, 'You're a huge child and you're terrified of women, but you don't like sports, so you think that makes you less of a misogynist.'

stringing up rival kings on trees, rejoicing in piles of heads – there was an element of childish glee in all of that.

The Spice Girl morality is the morality of the three-year-old.

Is it right to be watching strangers in a play / in this strangest of theatres? / What childishness is it that while there's a breath of life / in our bodies, we are determined to rush / to see the sun the other way around?

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

Every problem becomes very childish when once it is explained to you.

Power games and manipulation were like air in the Mirador and despite a new distaste for their childishness, I was breathing deeply.

Mais c'est renfantillage - this is childishness!' we heard de Grandin pant as we closed in and sought a chance to seize his skeleton-like antagonist. 'He who fights an imp of Satan as if he were human is a fool!' ("The Man In Crescent Terrace")

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

Women see ourselves diminished or softened by the falsely benign accusations of childishness, of non-universality, of changeability, of sensuality.

Arrogance was unattractive enough when it was attached to true talent or brilliance. Attached to childishness, it was just plain irritating.

When parents as well as children are eating 'kid food', perhaps it's time to call not something else. 'Kid food' started off as something separate and different from normal food. Now it is close to being the new normal for all age groups. The danger is that when adults have childish tastes too, it becomes very difficult for anyone to break the cycle and learn the pleasures of real food.

One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level of a child's understanding if they are to arouse the masses to historic actions.

If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.

Die Liebe macht offenbar kindisch.

More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'

How childish lovers can seem - perhaps that is why love is so alarming, it reduces us to children again, little and vulnerable and powerless in a great world we do not understand.

Well, I ask the impartial reader, is it not childishness, and more than that, dangerous childishness? Is it not inevitable that we shall have revolution after revolution, if there is a determination never to stop till this contradiction is realized: -"To give nothing to government and to receive much from it"?

Tout ce qui n'est ni une couleur, ni un parfum, ni une musique, dit-il en comptant sur ses doigts, c'est de l'enfantillage. -Et une femme? protesta Lil. Sa femme? -Une femme, non, par conséquent, dit Wolf, puisque c'est au moins les trois.