“A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.”

“The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.”

“Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.”

“We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.”

“It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous.”

“Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive”