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Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.
— Mason Cooley
A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.
— Jerry Saltz
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
— Sophie Swetchine
We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
— Adam Weishaupt
Old cheerful songs about frivolous things that mean nothing to me.
— Lauren DeStefano
I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.
— Jeanloup Sieff
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
— Charlotte Bronte
If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.
— Marcia Cross
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
— Angela Carter
You're a gambling man, right? Or do you only bet on frivolous things like poker and fucking women?
— Amy Andrews
Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.
— Laura Joh Rowland
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— Barbara Hambly
If owning frivolous articles of excess were indeed the trappings of malevolence, my home was ready to play host to the Axis powers.
— Michael Gurnow
Man cannot be content in his riches even if he has the whole world, there must be a frivolous extra desire.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.
— Gore Vidal
Frivolous, disconnected, an amateur at everything, I shall have known thoroughly only the disadvantage of having been born.
— Emil M. Cioran
As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.
— Freida Pinto
Disbelief in the devil is a French notion, a frivolous notion.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He began to view writing as a petty ambition, a frivolous and indulgent whim, creativity itself as the pathology of the very young or very stupid.
— Galt Niederhoffer
Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.
— Rick Perry
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
— Evelyn Waugh
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
— Iris Murdoch
Better farPursue a frivolous trade by serious means,
Than a sublime art frivolously. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.
— Milan Kundera
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public.
— Linda Ronstadt
I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
— Henry David Thoreau
But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.
— Taylor Momsen
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
— Edith Wharton
I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.
— Christopher Hitchens
Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
— Philip Treacy
Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.
— Virginia Woolf
Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous.
— Norman L. Biggs
Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.
— Robert Genn
She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it.
— Kelly Ayotte
Fashion is not frivolous.
— Donatella Versace
I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.
— Tadashi Suzuki
I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.
— Michele Bachmann
Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society's energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.
— Alan Weisman
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
Driving through the refugee camp made us think about how embarrassingly frivolous most of our problems are.
— Brad Van Orden
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
— Bernard Malamud
It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.
— Eugene Jarecki
Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually.
— Frederick Lenz
Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick menWhen for so slight and frivolous a cause
Such factious emulations shall arise! — William Shakespeare
The fight against bad English is not frivolous.
— George Orwell
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I would much prefer to enlarge your life by giving you the gift of my life, rather than gifting your life to material obesity with frivolous trinkets.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The glamorous life is a facade, a frauda farce of frivolous trite
The storybook is blank inside
Chivalry has died — Donato DiCristino
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.
— Richard Steele
I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.
— Sebastian Faulks
I don't fly to the classics for comfort, as Giles does. I'm too frivolous. Worthy people always read the classics when things are difficult.
— Elizabeth Goudge
I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
— Betty Friedan
Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.
— Romola Garai
...shiny trinkets and frivolous spending make people forget what world they're living in.
— Beth Lewis
In hard times, beauty can seem frivolous - but take it away, and all you're left with is hard times.
— Paul Madonna
It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
— Marguerite Duras
She felt about her zester the way some women do about a pair of spiky red shoesa frivolous splurge, good only for parties, but oh so lovely. — Erica Bauermeister
I avoid contemporary TV ... politics ... art: all too frantic, fevered, and frivolous, or else angry, bitter.
— Dean Koontz
Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.
— Donatella Versace
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
— James Mackintosh
To surround yourself with beauty isn't frivolous. It's a necessity. If it weren't, then our cities would not be surrounded with art museums and parks.
— Charlotte Symonds
Those things which now seem frivolous and slight,Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.
— Dorothy Nevill
As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.
— Akiva Goldsman
Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous.
— G.K. Chesterton
How long will you carry this burden - the fame you earned by frivolous alms? Give it to him who owns the whole, the Lord of earth and the skies above.
— Preeth Nambiar
Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.
— Mason Cooley