Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“If art can never offer levity, then I'll have none of it!” — Annette (Schrab) Clark Copy Share Image
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I often times find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I… — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that's where your focus should be. And then there's a lot… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor.… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's… — Ed Robertson Copy Share Image
“Religious people are not fun... So, Jesus shows up and kids run around Him, want to be with Him. You know why?… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I knew what I wanted to do when I set out. I knew that I wanted to write a book that told… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
... the Apostle Paul says that we are sealed in the Spirit (cf. Eph. 1:13); since we have in the Son the… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The body, she says, is subject to the forces of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Levity was my only defence against his proximity. It was a wedge, a barrier, a reminder that I was not to lick… — Debbie Cassidy Copy Share Image
Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
