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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

I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender. — Nancy Lopez

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

One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious. — Susan Sontag

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

Of course I'm frivolous," [Antryg] replied mildly. "You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else. — 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

Typical frivolous always ended by sacrificing to vulgar pleasures. She — Henry James

If you were to be stranded on a desert island, what three items would you take? I gave this frivolous answer: A cat, a hat and a piece of string. — Joanne Harris

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base. — Iris Murdoch

Better far
Pursue a frivolous trade by serious means,
Than a sublime art frivolously. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. — Hans Hofmann

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

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it. — Goldie Hawn

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

But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip. — Bill Ayers

A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial. — George Gilder

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

I don't allow flying nuns in my convent," she said. "They tend to be frivolous, and during night flight, they're prone to crashing through windows. — Dean Koontz

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

The joy you find as a teen, however frivolous and dumb, is pure and meaningful. — Goldy Moldavsky

For the critics who think Chesterton frivolous or 'paradoxical' I have to work hard to feel even pity; sympathy is out of the question. — C.S. Lewis

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

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous. — Madame De Stael

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

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men. — Martial

Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually. — Frederick Lenz

Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men
When 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 fraud
a farce of frivolous trite
The storybook is blank inside
Chivalry has died — Donato DiCristino

Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today. — Mary Quant

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

Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right. — Colin Firth

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 shoes
a 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