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Vivacity Quotes

Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

Honore de Balzac
Spirit, Vivacity

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.

William Hazlitt
Spirit, Insolence, Vivacity
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1486, Delphi Classics

As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.

Joseph Addison
Women, Gravity, Vivacity
"Complete Works of Joseph Addison".

A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

William Hazlitt
Conversation, Vivacity, Equal
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Years, Vivacity, Folly

Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.

David Hume
Ideas, Force, Vivacity

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

Daniel Woodrell
Stories, Kind, Vivacity

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