Friday 30 March 2007

“Do you think my nature so shallow?” cried Dorian Gray, angrily.
“No; I think your nature so deep.”
“How do you mean?”
“My dear boy, people who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or the lack of imagination. Faithlessness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the intellectual life,–simply a confession of failure. But I don’t want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.”

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Chapter III by Oscar Wilde
Frivolous (frĭv'ə-ləs) adj. Not serious in content or attitude or behavior.
Unworthy of serious attention; trivial: a frivolous novel.
Inappropriately silly: a frivolous purchase.
[Middle English, probably from Latin frīvolus, of little value, probably from friāre, to crumble.] Via

Wednesday 7 March 2007