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
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
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. — Charles Caleb Colton 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
Exterior shots showing blue skies add a levity and brightness to each show. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the… — George Bernard Shaw 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
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
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
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
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
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
There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of… — James Wolk Copy Share Image
The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity… — Edward Irving 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
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
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
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
... 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
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
“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
But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the… — Margaret Atwood 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
There's a lot of levity to 'Offspring' and I just love that the costumes reflect that. — Asher Keddie Copy Share Image
You faced front, you seldom smiled, since levity was not the mark you wanted put across your face forever. — Michael Lesy 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
