Levity Quotes

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

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

Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.

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.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

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

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

A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.

I often times find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

In infants,
levity is a prettiness;
in men a shameful defect;
but in old age,
a monstrous folly.

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

A land of levity is a land of guilt.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.