Levity Quotes

• Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

  Doris Day

  Wise, Time, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Wise, Trouble, Public Speaking

  "Answers to Nine Questions". Interview with Clarence Rook, 1895.

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• Nothing like a little judicious levity.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Littles

  'The Wrong Box' (with Lloyd Osbourne, 1889) ch. 7

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• Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.

  Wally Schirra

  Stress, Boredom, Resorts

  Ed Buckbee, Wally Schirra (2005). “The Real Space Cowboys”, Collectors Guide Pub

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Laughing, Violence, Supreme

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Humor, Law, Gravity

  "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 4), 1968.

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• Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Foolish, Gravity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.169

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• 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 which they speak of others.

  Edward Irving

  Respect, Heart, Grieving

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• I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

  Sheryl Crow

  Life, Inspire, Trying

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• Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

  Francis Atterbury

  School, Affliction, Virtue

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• 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 on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.

  Nick Stahl

  Pieces, Sometimes, Brutal

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• The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Eye, Soul

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• Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, And Love

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1319, Delphi Classics

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• Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Essence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.46, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

  Seneca the Younger

  Behaviour, Behavior, Virtuous

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• The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

  Saul Bellow

  Love, Funny, Soul

  "Him with His Foot in His Mouth" (1984)

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• Nourished people, people who love and care for themselves, are also more efficient and nicer to be around. When you give yourself permission to relax, people will feel more relaxed around you; your environment will become more harmonious. Balance - between work and pleasure, giving and receiving, seriousness and levity - creates a happy healthy life.

  Kathy Freston

  Giving, People, Healthy

  Kathy Freston (2012). “Quantum Wellness: A Step-by-Step Guide to Health and Happiness”, p.149, Random House

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• 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 turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Death, Soul

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.165, Modern Library

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• I have a lot more fun making comedies because there's a levity on the set, and I find it difficult to go to work and, you know, cry for 12 hours.

  Megan Fox

  Fun, Comedy, Cry

  "'I don't want to be overly sexual now I'm a mum': Megan Fox talks motherhood and movies" by John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. December 7, 2012.

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• 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 it. I also understand the depth of it.

  Prabal Gurung

  Fashion, Jobs, New York

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• Burn Notice' is a show that definitely has some levity to it and it's a fun show, but it's also, you fully believe, you're fully invested that Michael Westen does this stuff. You want Michael Westen on your team.

  Tricia Helfer

  Fun, Team, Believe

  "Tricia Helfer Gives Us the Lowdown on Burn Notice". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 27, 2009.

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

  Michael R. Burch

  Soul, Wit, Brevity

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• 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 their saving grace.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Past, Grace

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.419, Anchor

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• 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 do it

  Drew Barrymore

  Enlightenment, Way, Obstacles

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• Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.

  Rabbi Akiva

  Men

  Pirkei Avot, 3:17,

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