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A lot of truth is said in jest.
Eminem

Authors on Jest Quotes: Samuel Johnson William Shakespeare George Herbert Francois de La Rochefoucauld David Foster Wallace Miguel de Cervantes Richard Brinsley Sheridan Plautus Friedrich Schiller William Shenstone Helen Rowland Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Horace Ovid Publilius Syrus Javan Tacitus Bion of Smyrna Lucy Freeman Katharine Tynan Elizabeth I Jean de la Bruyere Ralph Waldo Emerson Marie de France Alexandre Dumas Lucy Maud Montgomery Marcus Tullius Cicero Emily Dickinson John Webster Graham Greene Annie Dillard Geoffrey Chaucer Eminem
2.
Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
William Shakespeare

3.
Many a truth is told in jest.
Jonathan Swift

4.
There's many a true word spoken in jest.
James Joyce

5.
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Helen Rowland

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Many a true word is spoken in jest
Geoffrey Chaucer

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Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
Javan

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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
Jean de la Bruyere

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It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
Elizabeth I

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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
Marie de France

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The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Friedrich Schiller

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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
Annie Dillard

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To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

14.
Jests that give pains are no jests.
Miguel de Cervantes

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The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.
Samuel Johnson

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His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.
William Shakespeare

17.
A friend must not be injured, even in jest.
Publilius Syrus

18.
Never injure a friend,
even in jest.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

20.
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Samuel Richardson

21.
Every love story is a ghost story.
David Foster Wallace

22.
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
Plautus

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Love taught me that your honour did but jest.
Graham Greene

24.
A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
Tacitus

25.
Raillery is more insupportable than wrong;
because we have a right to resent injuries,
but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.
Ovid

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Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.
George Herbert

28.
Many true words are spoken in jest.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.
Katharine Tynan

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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.
Horace

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Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
Samuel Johnson

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In jest, there is truth.
William Shakespeare

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Jest not with the eye or with Religion.
George Herbert

34.
Jest with your equals.
Bion of Smyrna

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often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.
Lucy Freeman

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Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
Samuel Johnson

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The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
William Shenstone

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I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
Alexandre Dumas

39.
Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.
John Webster

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The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.
Emily Dickinson

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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
Quintilian

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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson