Best Flippant Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007

“An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere.”

Looks Light Feet Flower Spring Trade Fingers Deeper Expected Hills Dawn Print Village Twilight Sunrise Spiders Purple April Altered Springtime Lawns Slopes Flippant

Book:The Works of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Works of Emily Dickinson

“Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts I never really dreamed of heaven much Until we put him in the ground. There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free”

Sometimes Lost Heaven Easy Worry Lucky Muscles Plot Tease Flippant Twitching

Author:Conor Oberst

“When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.”

Stupid Calm Insight Harmonious Frivolous Flippant

Author:Hildegard of Bingen

“My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.”

Way Long Said Use School Acting Comedy Drama Scene Long Time Tendencies Tragic They Said Tutor Flippant

Author:John Bradley-West

“To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas! how have I still - inclination? Have I-still a goal? A haven towards which MY sail is set?A good wind? Ah, he only who knoweth WHITHER he saileth, knoweth what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.What still remaineth to me? A heart weary and flippant; and unstable will; fluttering wings; a broken backbone.This seeking for MY home: O Zarathustra, dost thou know that this seeking hath been MY home-sickening; it eateth me up.”

Source: Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None

“I've always warned my clients about fame being very dangerous, and unfortunately, they need to be famous to make a living, but not to be flippant with it, that it could kill them, and to always keep their eye on it. There was no reason for me to do it. I don't make my money off fame, not my fame.”

Needs Reason Eye Dangerous Fame No Reason Clients Flippant

Author:Shep Gordon

“I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.”

Writing Would Be Subjects Sacred Flippant

Author:Joseph Heller

“Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.”

Matter Courses Conversation Everyday Tendencies Irony Knees Comment Ironic Jerk Flippant

Author:Douglas Coupland

“I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.”

Acting Cases Rubbish Flippant

Author:Tom Hollander

“I don't mean to be flippant about cancer - it was hard, it was tough and it was scary. Then my next manuscript was about cancer because I had a whole new topic to write about. And because I wrote, it didn't take over. Writing took the chaos out of cancer.”

Writing Mean Hard Whole Next Tough Chaos Cancer Scary Topics Manuscripts Flippant

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“That's a rather flippant quote "drinking and writing bad poetry" from me. I mean, I said it, but I was doing other stuff too. I certainly didn't manage the full stretch of four years.”

Writing Years Mean Said Stuff Four Drinking Manage Four Years Flippant

Author:Dylan Moran

“Do I believe in God? Can't answer, I'm afraid. I'm not being flippant, but I don't understand the question. What is it that I am supposed to believe or not believe in? Are you asking whether I believe there is something not in the universe (or the universes, if there are (maybe infinitely) many of them), and that somehow stands above them? I've never heard of any reason for believing that.”

Ifs Believe Reason Universe I Believe Answers Heard Asking I Believe In Believe In God I Believe In God Flippant

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.”

Thinking Actors Fun Roles Lazy Flippant

Author:Guy Pearce

“It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.”

Would Be Fans Documentaries Shabby Flippant

Author:Rick Springfield

“Desi, Desi, Desi what am I going to do with you? (Kyrian) Don't you dare take that flippant tone with me! (Desiderius) Why ever not? (Kyrian) Because I am not some scared little Daimon to run cringing from you. I am your worst nightmare. (Desiderius) Must you resort to cliches? C'mon, Desidisastrous, couldn't you think of anything more original than that B-movie dialogue staple? (Kyrian)”

Thinking Littles Running Worst Originals Scared Dare Dialogue Tone Nightmare Resorts Cliche Staples Worst Nightmares Flippant

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.”

“...people like to say things like 'all work is prostitution'. Most work is exploitation, but most work is not prostitution. Prostitution is prostitution, a very specific sort of exploitation... And while I am doing literal corrections to flippant turns of phrase, the earth doesn't get raped. It gets mined and poisoned and blown up and depleted, it gets ruined, but it doesn't get raped.”

People Earth Turns Phrases Exploitation Ruined Prostitution Literal Corrections Flippant

Author:Michelle Tea

“To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God.”

Men Giving Real Obedience Gentle Being Real Godly Femininity Gracious Manly Frivolous Obedience To God Real Women Fluff Womanly Flippant

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“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.”

Thinking Men May Seems Respect Ridicule Scorn Frivolous Flippant

Book:The Works of J. W. Von Goethe

Source: The Works of J. W. Von Goethe

“Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.”

Thinking Men Freedom Liberty Paper Vote Independence Slave Disgusting Declaration Declaration Of Independence Right To Vote Statutes Flippant Preamble

Book:The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.”

Tree Ocean Crowds Beach Virgins Elderly Adopting Slender Coconuts Flippant

Author:William Manchester

“I love working with Erica [Durance]. She's so much fun. And I love how flippant, comfortable, and casual the relationship is. There is so much humor there, and they make each other laugh. It is obvious how much they adore each other. I really like that.”

Fun Laughing Comfortable Obvious Adore Casual Flippant

Author:Allison Mack

“I am flippant. That's one of my charms.”

Charm Flippant

Author:Ryan O'Neal

“There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen.”

Courses Fun Sides Known Musician Producers Ice Queens Singer Songwriters Flippant Ice Queen

Author:Siouxsie Sioux

“We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn't to make money. It sounds a little flippant, but it's the truth. Our goal and what makes us excited is to make great products. If we are successful people will like them and if we are operationally competent, we will make money.”

People Ifs Littles Sound Goal Successful Products Excited Making Money Successful People Revenue Competent Flippant

Author:Jonathan Ive

“As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.”

Source: The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes

“It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.”

World Giving Pain Suffering Difficult Sound Levels This World Surface Bites Superficial Pain And Suffering Sound Bites Flippant

Author:Lee Strobel

“The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.”

Stills Paris Appetite Flippant

Author:Diablo Cody