Levity Quotes

42 quotes by 35 authors

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling… — Richard Baxter
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. — Charles Caleb Colton
I try to conduct my life with a little levity. — Sheryl Crow
Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is exerting a certain… — John Angell James
Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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… — Edward Irving
Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company… — Saint Francis de Sales
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. — Francis Atterbury
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… — Jean de la Bruyere
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession. — John Donne
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 worked… — Nick Stahl
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… — Drew Barrymore
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
... the Apostle Paul says that we are sealed in the Spirit (cf. Eph. 1:13); since we have in the Son the image of the… — Ambrose
Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom. — Wally Schirra
A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade. — Wally Schirra
The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nothing like a little judicious levity. — Robert Louis Stevenson
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… — Prabal Gurung

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