Gravity is a kind of quackery. [ Mme. de Motteville ]
Piety enjoins no man to be dull. [ South ]
Gravity is twin brother to stupidity. [ Bovee ]
The body's wisdom to conceal the mind. [ Young ]
Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. [ Lavater ]
Irony is jesting hidden behind gravity. [ John Weiss ]
Gravity is more suggestive than convincing. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Gravity is the inseparable companion of pride. [ Goldsmith ]
Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass? [ Montaigne ]
Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries. [ Fielding ]
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom, but it preserves it. [ Confucius ]
As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of man. [ Addison ]
The most profound joy has more of gravity than gayety in it. [ Montague ]
There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps the mind steady. [ Fuller ]
Those wanting wit, affect gravity and go by the name of solid men. [ Dryden ]
Gravity is a stratagem invented to conceal the poverty of the mind. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly. [ Hazlitt ]
Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body, invented to cover the defects of the mind. [ La Roche ]
Gravity is a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man is worth. [ Sterne ]
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity! [ Montaigne ]
A man of sense and gravity is less apt to succeed with a fine woman than the gay, the giddy, the flattering coxcomb. [ Henry Home ]
Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself. [ Shaftesbury ]
We cannot abolish fate, but we can in a measure utilise it. The projectile force of the bullet does not annul or suspend gravity; it uses it. [ John Burroughs ]
A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry. [ Fielding ]
There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart; but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection. [ Landor ]
I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness. [ Pliny the Elder ]
The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. [ Burke ]
Gravity, with all its pretensions, was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it, viz., a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. [ Sterne ]
There is a false gravity that is a very ill symptom: and it may be said, that as rivers, which run very slowly, have always the most mud at the bottom: so a solid stiffness in the constant course of a man's life, is a sign of a thick bed of mud at the bottom of his brain. [ Saville ]
Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life. [ Watts ]
Yorick sometime?, in his wild way of talking, would say that gravity was an arrant scoundrel, and, he would add, of the most dangerous kind, too, because a sly one; and that he verily believed more honest well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods and money by it in one twelvemonth than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. [ Sterne ]
The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it - a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. [ Sterne ]