Levity Quotes
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Levity Quotes & Sayings
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A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.
— Wally Schirra
Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unhappy times are the best for levity. You don't light candles in the middle of the day, do you?
— Joe Abercrombie
A land of levity is a land of guilt.
— Edward Young
The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.
— Henry David Thoreau
He fell to fighting again with a supernatural levity, like a Mohammedan panting for Paradise.
— G.K. Chesterton
Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness.
— Akiva Ben Joseph
Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.
— Rabbi Akiva
All yours, sweetheart," Smithe added. "And Steele, I'm talking to Donovan. If there was ever anything sweet about you the Polar ice caps might melt.
— Cheyenne McCray
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.
— Joel Edgerton
We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.
— Benjamin Franklin
Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.
— Wally Schirra
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
— Francis Atterbury
If art can never offer levity, then I'll have none of it!
— Annette Schrab Clark
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.
— Michael R. Burch
I try to conduct my life with a little levity.
— Sheryl Crow
Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.
— Seneca The Younger
Keep a sense of humor. Over and over, I see that levity helps diffuse practically any difficult situation - which
— Gretchen Rubin
The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.
— Saul Bellow
Levity and sincerity are not antonyms. We take pleasure in playing chess, but that does not mean we make wasteful moves. You
— Claire North
Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it
— Drew Barrymore
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
— George Bernard Shaw
Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement(33)?
— Richard Baxter
The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to feel good.
— Matt Chandler
You know a few shiftless persons in need of biological levity. You men of negotiable constancy like gold, don't you?
— Michelle Franklin
Write as if the wind will erase every word.
— Marty Rubin
the levity of the doomed has no equal.
— Padgett Powell
The easiness with which she hears of her faults, is only another effect of the levity with which she commits them.
— Fanny Burney
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
— Charles Caleb Colton
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.
— R.A. Lafferty