the levity of the doomed has no equal.

I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do…

— Meryl Streep

Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with…

— Richard Baxter

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…

— Margaret Atwood

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death,…

— Helen Oyeyemi

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

— Michael R. Burch

“Religious people are not fun... So, Jesus shows up and kids run around Him, want to be with Him. You know why? He's fun...…

— Mark Driscoll

Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's sometimes an…

— Ed Robertson

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

— Anonymous

I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“I never thought I would see you armed." I was trying for levity. It worked like a lead balloon.”

— Melissa Jensen

In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've…

— Nick Stahl

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