“Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness to foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein; by gestures int”
Samuel Johnson
“In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Chauncey looked a lot livelier. A lot of guys looked a lot more livelier tonight.”
Flip Saunders
“You faced front, you seldom smiled, since levity was not the mark you wanted put across your face forever.”
Michael Lesy
“Nothing like a little judicious levity.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Middle age is youth without its levity,/ And age without decay.”
Daniel Defoe
“If there's levity surrounding it, it makes the moment a lot more palatable. If you go on CNN, you're not going to get the laughter.”
Howard Bragman
