Top 66 Frivolous Quotes

Everything serious in the world is well approached by humour. It’s a powerful and often quite subversive tool. I suppose there is an argument that could be made against me for being frivolous, but I do think a laugh is a very generous thing to give.

If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

Until I read Anne Frank’s diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.

I don’t think ‘Befikre’ is frivolous at all. Yes, the film is light-hearted. Shyra and Dharam are free-spirited but that doesn’t mean they are obnoxious.

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

I’ve struggled with that over the years: Is fashion relevant? Is it frivolous? Is it trivial? Because I give so much of my essence to it, as do everybody I work with.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless kids to work off steam; more than a way for chubby kids to burn off calories; more than a frivolous luxury.

So chess is kind of this nice thing that I have no real aspiration for. It’s just a frivolous thing I can enjoy.

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

Some people become artists for whatever reasons. Some of it’s frivolous. And I don’t think there should be any shame on that, but I think there comes a point in life where you want to offer more.

Those who obstruct the Senate should pay a price in public notoriety and physical exhaustion. That would lead to a significant decline in frivolous filibusters.

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

I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn’t just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.

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

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

I think it’s incumbent upon elected officials to make sure that, if we’re going to demand more tax money from people, that we use it in a productive manner and not just say, ‘This is what we’re going to use it for,’ and then they find out that it was used for something else and sometimes something very frivolous.

Some people think fashion is frivolous but it’s not… it’s just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that’s the nature of the language of fashion.

This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won’t be a threat to men.

My father made bridal dresses, which he sold wholesale, and always wanted me to join him. He looked upon what I did as precarious and frivolous – except that he loved it when my name was in the papers.

Every sexy joke of long ago, every flirtation, is being recalled by some women and revised and re-evaluated as sexual harassment. Frivolous accusations reduce, if not eliminate, not only communication between men and women but any kind of playfulness and banter… Where has the laughter gone?

Clothes are an amazing tool. They are an amazing way to hide a multitude of sins; they’re an amazing way to be creative. Clothes can do so many things. But at the end of the day, if they don’t serve you, it’s just a waste of time. Then it is frivolous.

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can’t find the time, there are people who’ve never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

I’m not a prosecutor at home. I don’t talk about my day, because nobody’s interested. I might do something frivolous, like bead.

I don’t have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can’t be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.

The time for frivolous entertainment has passed. You can be entertained while at the same time learning from and growing with the people around you.

At a horror movie, you can see other people dealing with the scary things. They can bolster you. You can think, ‘Okay, if that guy can deal with it, I can deal with it.’ There are lessons to be learned there, as opposed to having a frivolous popcorn experience. I think some of this stuff is good for your soul.

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we’ve managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down.

Fashion is not frivolous.

I was never made to feel that fashion was frivolous and any old dress would do. Fashion was serious stuff in my house and in my life. In fact, most memories I have growing up involve beautiful dresses.

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

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

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

Comfortably middle-class, I had shopped for years at the likes of Saks outlet Off Fifth, Banana Republic, and Zara. My mom raised me to believe clothes should be comfortable and practical, not frivolous.

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

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.

Poking fun at other people’s beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.

I can’t know entirely what’s at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a poem, for instance, that starts with something seemingly frivolous or inconsequential and then grows in gravity until by the end it’s something very serious.

Comedy is such a frivolous world that it can make you addicted to the frivolity, and then a lot of people don’t settle down and are still in that non-specific age maturity bracket.

Lawsuits – and frivolous lawsuits – are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.

Fashion is an illusion. It’s a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

It’s only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

I love kitchenware. I’m very frugal and I don’t buy a lot of things, but I’m frivolous when it comes to buying groceries and kitchenware.

We were never a frivolous band; we prided ourselves on having something to say, and I think that’s what gives your songs longevity.

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

I don’t really find things funny unless they’re deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you’re funny just for the sake of being funny, it’s just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.