Flippant Quotes

Whoever is reading this today is going to live longer than the generation prior to them, and they may live longer than they may care to think about. So you need to carefully address your retirement account. This is not a flippant thing. - Diane Rolfsmeyer

This isn't just some flippant idea or fool's errand. We're hoping to get the country to realize that you don't have to be affluent or powerful to make an impact. - Dave Klink

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

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

That soldier and those men and women there deserved a far better answer from their secretary of defense than a flippant comment... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. - Chuck Hagel

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. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want to get this bill signed, so for the first time in 16 years, the American people have a tax cut, but we're not going to give it up flippantly, we're going to work to keep it. I think the president has to look at what does he want. He's not going to get everything he wants; this is not a one-way street. - Newt Gingrich

I think there seems to be more stature in the presidents of a bygone time. It seems more flippant today. - Bill Miller

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. - Guy Pearce