Frippery Quotes & Sayings

I'm really not quite as frippery a fellow as you seem to think! I own that in my grasstime I committed a great many follies and extravagances, but, believe me, I've long since out-grown them! I don't think they were any worse than what nine out of ten youngsters commit, but unfortunately I achieved, through certain circumstances, a notoriety which most young men escape. I was born with a natural aptitude for the sporting pursuits you regard with so much distrust, and I inherited, at far too early an age, a fortune which not only enabled me to indulge my tastes in the most expensive manner imaginable, but which made me an object of such interest that everything I did was noted, and talked of. That's heady stuff for greenhorns, you know! There was a time when I gave the gossips plenty to talk about. But do give me credit for having seen the error of my ways! — Georgette Heyer

Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery. — Terry Pratchett

In the early summer of 1902 John Barrington — Thornton Wilder

All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker. — Carl Sandburg

When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The actress playing Celia could ask why god had ever put her on earth.
and then the voice from the back of the theater could rumble: to reproduce. nothing else really interests me. all the rest is frippery. — Kurt Vonnegut

I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it. — Meryl Streep

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world. — Abigail Adams

You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in aversion, for I am sure that such a thing would be quite shocking! And Charles would not do so either, would you, dear Charles?"(Elizabeth Ombersley)
"No, certainly not. But neither would I consent to her marriage with any such frippery fellow as Augustus Fawnhope!"
"Augustus," announced Cecilia, putting up her chin, "will be remembered long after you have sunk into oblivion!"
"By his creditors? I don't doubt it. — Georgette Heyer

... There was something regal about her. She carried herself like she was wearing pink moire. And that powerless complexion glowed. Watching her, it came to me that she must have some Yankee strength that didn't need frippery. — Ann Rinaldi

If I were not to put my arms out; would I have not caught you when you fell — Jeremy Aldana

And I must remind myself that assassins should take no pleasure in their finery and frippery. — Robin LaFevers

One writes to teach, to move or to delight. — Rodolphus Agricola

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork
But it always comes roaring back again. — Tom Waits

Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form. — Iris Apfel

It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee. — Maureen Johnson