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  • Vivacity is the health of the spirit. -- Honore de Balzac
  • I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them. -- Danny Boyle
  • To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. -- Joseph Addison
  • 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
  • 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
  • The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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  • In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot. -- Bill Brandt
  • Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object. -- Richard Whately
  • It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon. -- Lord Chesterfield
  • 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
  • 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
  • I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence. -- Samuel Johnson
  • 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
  • We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it. -- William Hazlitt
  • 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
  • Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • 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
  • There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde; which, in the commerce of world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour, but is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character. -- Washington Irving
  • 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
  • A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom, fantasies. At the same time, that's where my creativity can be found. If I tried to control it and make it more mature, it wouldn't be good at all. It'd be uninteresting, without any vivacity. -- Karl Ove Knausgard
  • 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
  • No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental. That is not its job. Its job is to synthesize musical and social traditions with high-styled vivacity, especially those that dwell on different sides of the tracks in real life. The highbrow meets the lowbrow; sweet meets hot; uptown, downtown, all around the town. -- Margo Jefferson
  • I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them. -- Danny Boyle
  • I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories. -- Daniel Woodrell
  • 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
  • As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of men. -- Joseph Addison
  • Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus. -- David Hume
  • A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture. -- William Hazlitt
  • 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
  • Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground. -- Dorothy Parker
  • 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
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