Frivolity Quotes
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.
Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.
The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive
When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.
The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.
He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.
By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.
Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.
And our dreams, with what frivolity we have pared them like toenails, clipped them like ends of split hair.
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.
In a world of physical ease, brutal social equality, and reasonable economic equality, exclusiveness in frivolity becomes the most sought-after of all distinctions.
The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she liked my amusing facial expression.
Greatness cannot be attained by wasting time on frivolities of life.
Begin to lay hold of every minute of your life and convert it into something of value to benefit the world. Never allow any of your time to be wasted on the frivolities of life.
Never allow any of your time to be wasted on the frivolities of life.
There is so much pressure on us to try to overcome boredom by spending time on frivolities.
I know so much pressure is on all of us to waste time and to just trivialize it. There is so much pressure on us to try to overcome boredom by spending time on frivolities.