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A lot of truth is said in jest.
Eminem

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

6.
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

7.
It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
Elizabeth I

8.
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
Jean de la Bruyere

9.
I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
Marie de France

10.
Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
Javan

11.
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
Annie Dillard

12.
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

13.
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Friedrich Schiller

14.
Never injure a friend,
even in jest.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

15.
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

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

17.
Jests that give pains are no jests.
Miguel de Cervantes

18.
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

19.
His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.
William Shakespeare

20.
A friend must not be injured, even in jest.
Publilius Syrus

21.
Love taught me that your honour did but jest.
Graham Greene

22.
Every love story is a ghost story.
David Foster Wallace

23.
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
Plautus

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

26.
Jest not with the eye or with Religion.
George Herbert

27.
In jest, there is truth.
William Shakespeare

28.
often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.
Lucy Freeman

29.
Jest with your equals.
Bion of Smyrna

30.
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

32.
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

33.
The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.
Emily Dickinson

34.
Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.
John Webster

35.
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
Quintilian

36.
The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

38.
Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.
George Herbert

39.
The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.
Katharine Tynan

40.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.
Horace

41.
Many true words are spoken in jest.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

42.
Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
Samuel Johnson