Vivacity Quotes

• Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

  Honore de Balzac

  Spirit

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• There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Smile, Spiritual, Character

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• Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Weak Man, May

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.208

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• Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.

  Madame de Stael

  Religious, Sacrifice, Desire

  "Life of Madame de Staël" by Abel Stevens, (Ch. XXXIV), 1880.

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• Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is their drawing room and the sun their lamp. Besides, they have appetite, Nature's special gift, which lends to such a meal a vivacity unknown indoors, however beautiful the surroundings.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Beautiful, Laughter, Food

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• Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Nice, Dirty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Success, Men

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.159

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• I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Thorough Understanding, Order, House

  Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.201, Routledge

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• PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Animal, Pigs

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.164, 谷月社

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• The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Reading, Age, Novelty

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• The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Color, Light, Landscape

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  An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Army, Lions

  Napoleon Bonaparte “A selection from the letters and despatches of the first Napoleon”, Рипол Классик

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• As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.

  Joseph Addison

  Women, Gravity, Mankind

  "Complete Works of Joseph Addison".

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• I don't want to make pompous, serious films.

  Danny Boyle

  Want, Serious, Film

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

  Danny Boyle

  Serious, Want, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin surfaces. Gone was the sentimental sobriety. Gone was the brown gravy in which Europe had been bathing its pictures for centuries. Here were pictures riotously mad with the sun. With light and air and throbbing vivacity. Paintings of ballet girls backstage, done in primitive reds, greens, and blues thrown next to each other irreverantly. He looked at the signature. Degas.

  Irving Stone

  Girl, Wall, Light

  Irving Stone (1984). “Lust for Life”, Plume

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• Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints it gave of power, pride and passion. So entirely natural and unconventional was she that he soon found himself on a familiar footing, asking all manner of unusual questions, and receiving rather piquant replies.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Character, Eye, Passion

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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• The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Reading, Age, Library

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• If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Teacher, Children, Memories

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, translated by E. Lee, pp. 185-186, 1903.

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• The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Years, Folly

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• I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Stories, Kind, Interest

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• Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humor, vivacity, or the capacity for enjoyment.

  Charles Dickens

  Sarcastic, Thinking, People

  Charles Dickens (2017). “THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens”, p.6762, e-artnow

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• Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Passion, Character, Adversity

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• swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.

  Mary Collyer

  Stupid, Ignorant, Said

  Mary Collyer (1749). “Felicia To Charlotte: Being Letters From A Young Lady in the Country, To Her Friend in Town : Containing A Series of the Most Interesting Events, Interspersed with Moral Reflections ...”, p.203

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• It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Laughter, Men, Shining

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