Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.
Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right.
I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern.
Why do you persist in being so frivolous, Urgit?" "Why don't we just call it a symptom of my incipient madness?" "You're not going to go mad," she said firmly. "Of course I'm going to go mad, mother. I'm rather looking forward to it.
Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.
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.
Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually.
Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.
It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.
In hard times, beauty can seem frivolous - but take it away, and all you're left with is hard times.
Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.
But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their natural sloth tempting them on the other. They are terrified at the prospect before them, of the toil required to attain exactness. The impetuosity of youth is disgusted at the slow approaches of a regular siege, and desires, from mere impatience of labour, to take the citadel by storm. They wish to find some shorter path to excellence, and hope to obtain the reward of eminence by other means, than those which the indispensable rules of art have prescribed.
Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.
I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.