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Levity Quotes

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

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

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

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

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

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

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

"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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.

"Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton Talk WARRIOR, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, GREAT GATSBY and MAD MAX: FURY ROAD". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 7, 2011.

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

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A land of levity is a land of guilt.

Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.155