One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
I've always been a bit flip.
It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant way, as many are prone to do.
You can make bleak things funny but if you're glib about it, it doesn't work.
She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it.
Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.
It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
I've become saucy.
I have some bad feet. But really, my main fault would probably be my personality. A lot of times, I am not serious enough. I joke around too much sometimes.
I am flippant. That's one of my charms.
I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.
I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.
People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening.
I'm kind of glib.
I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.
I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
She's been on more laps than a napkin.
I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.
I'm really cocky. Or - I've been thinking about this word a lot - I'm 'mischievous,' and I want to make light of things and push the boundaries.
Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.
I can't take anything seriously.
