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Frivolous Quotes

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.603, Wordsworth Editions

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

Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.174, Macmillan

Fashion is not frivolous.

"Donatella Versace: Fashion's Prima Donna". www.cnn.com.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

James Mackintosh (1872). “On the Progress of Ethical Philosophy: Chiefly During the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries”, p.232

I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.

Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

The fight against bad English is not frivolous.

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt