Quotes About Levity

Whoever can't lough doesn't deserve to be taken seriously

There's always a source for humor.

A wicked sense of humor, this one.

Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.

Middle age is youth without its levity, And age without decay.

I have deep comedic roots, and I want to be funny.

We have yet to learn again the forgotten art of gayety.

We have yet to learn again the forgotten art of gaiety.

I thought maybe she was trying to be funny but then realized this was impossible to do without a sense of humor.

I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.

Humor is my default mode.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity.

Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it may be levity.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

Some people seem quite destitute a sense of humour.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

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 hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. She's my hero because she was a metaphysical adventurer.

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

Soon I graduated to more sophisticated forms of levity, like seeing how many crayons I could stick up my nose at one time, burping the alphabet, and playing "Onward Christian Soldiers" on my armpit (I went to parochial school).

there was about his elders an ease in the holy place, and a levity, that made his soul uneasy.

If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.