Top 287 Frivolous Quotes & Sayings

I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.

I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

There's this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous. I completely disagree with that.

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

I was very lucky to grow up in a household that really valued storytelling and didn't find it frivolous.

I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.

I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

There is a point where litigious becomes frivolous. And when you file frivolous lawsuits you can be hit by sanctions. I don't see the basis for suing "The New York Times." Ironically, it was "The New York Times" that was the plaintiff in "The New York Times" versus Sullivan.

I take songwriting very seriously and I wouldn't want anything I do to be construed as frivolous or mundane.

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

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

The fight against bad English is not frivolous.

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

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

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

Fashion is not frivolous.

I am usually frivolous and fun, but sometimes I can be dead serious in my comments.

Clothes are not a frivolous subject, and the conversation around them should not be belittled. How we dress affects what we feel, what we do, and who we are.

The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

I am frivolous. But sometimes, that's the problem of my Christian education, when I know I've been frivolous, and I know I have to do it, then I feel guilty.

Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.

Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public.

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.

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

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

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.

There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.

I didn't grow up reading magazines; I was very much in an environment where that would have been deemed trivial, frivolous.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

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

She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

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.

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

Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.

The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.

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

I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

I've got my head down, working hard, while others are chasing other frivolous things.

One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous.

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.

Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.

I think that's one of the major overriding issues of the day, to deal with frivolous lawsuits. I think it creates a tremendous burden on our economy, a tremendous burden on health care, it creates all of this medicine, which is good medicine. It would be one of the most important things we could do. It, also would help the economy. A tremendous amount of money is taken out of our economy and a tremendous that is created by these frivolous lawsuits.

We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.

I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.

Evangelicals always assume that humor and faith are contradictory. It's OK to smile, to be nice, but not frivolous.