Levity Quotes

Levity Quote of the day

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.

The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

I have a lot more fun making comedies because there's a levity on the set, and I find it difficult to go to work and, you know, cry for 12 hours.

I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.

Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.

The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to feel good.

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

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.

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.

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

I often times find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.

I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself.

You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that's where your focus should be. And then there's a lot of levity in between and a lot of good fun.

If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

You can have levity in the film because real people look for levity in their lives.

A land of levity is a land of guilt.

Some of the funniest moments I've had have been like, at a funeral. Somebody says something and everyone's laughing because you have so much pain, but you need that moment of levity.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

Was his body made out of orange rocks and did he at any point yell 'It's clobbering time'?" "I find your attempt at levity inappropriate." "Consider me properly chastised.

I hope I can now use my ability to communicate, without being too precious or serious. It's good to have some levity, even as you're facing some really dark times, to mix it up a bit.

Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.

Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's otherwise a very dark life?