You faced front, you seldom smiled, since levity was not the mark you wanted put across your face forever. — Michael Lesy 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
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
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
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
You can have levity in the film because real people look for levity in their lives. — David Michod Copy Share Image
Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom. — Wally Schirra Copy Share Image
Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity… — Nick Stahl 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
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
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
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
Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Alice?” She spun toward the door, her skirts whirling softly. “Yes?” she forced out. “Do you know what I am holding in… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken;… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I don't feel like it's pressure. It's more of an obligation - not to entertain or be funny, but to have a… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Nourished people, people who love and care for themselves, are also more efficient and nicer to be around. When you give yourself… — Kathy Freston Copy Share Image
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man. — William Penn Copy Share Image
The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Work is in the word 'workout.' But I try to put some levity to it because you've got to want to come… — Gunnar Peterson Copy Share Image
Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I never thought I would see you armed." I was trying for levity. It worked like a lead balloon.” — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
“Unhappy times are the best for levity. You don't light candles in the middle of the day, do you?” — Joe Ambercrombie Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's… — Jeff Ross 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
“All yours, sweetheart,” Smithe added. “And Steele, I’m talking to Donovan. If there was ever anything sweet about you the Polar ice… — Cheyenne McCray Copy Share Image
Was his body made out of orange rocks and did he at any point yell 'It's clobbering time'?" "I find your attempt… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“These are the moments when you feel the levity in your chest—when you see all the people passing by and you can’t… — J. Grigsby Crawford Copy Share Image
