Quotes About Levity

I have to have people around who are of a certain strain of humour. I can't deal with people who have no humour.

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

the levity of the doomed has no equal.

Very few conversations with Charles Dickens did not include a laugh from him. I had never met a man so given to laughter. Almost no moment or context was too serious for this author not to find some levity in it, as some of us had discovered to our embarrassment at funerals.

His hair—cut your fucking hair already, you're not Alan Rickman—was lank.

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

Comedy is great because there's no overhead.

Bloodshed, gentlemen, no doubt is lamentable. I have seen some of it--more perhaps than many of those who talk about it with such levity. But there are worse things than bloodshed, even on an extreme scale. . . . The trampling down of law and order which, under the conditions of a civilised state, assure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--all this would be worse than bloodshed.

What was the matter with him? No sense of humor to leaven life? Must every act be dead serious, a weight upon his head and hands? Loving was a recreation; all the poets sang of its lightness, its levity. Only the dull clod raised barriers of creed or conscience.

A joke is a very serious thing.

A joke's a very serious thing.

Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

That's what's important these days, isn't it. Everything should be fun and lighthearted.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

Cultivate, I said, a sense of humor. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.

I think that comedy makes everyone feel weightless. The weight of whatever their troubles, or the weight of life, and in that moment, when you're laughing, it's like you're free of earth's gravity.

Juvenile stuff has always made me laugh. It's what I know.

I like really stupid comedies.

I love comedies, both broad and subtle.

I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.

they made a lot of laughter out of nothing.

I can see humor in almost anything.