Jest Quotes

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

Many a truth is told in jest.

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

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

Many a true word is spoken in jest

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

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

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

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

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

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

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

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

Jests that give pains are no jests.

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

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

A friend must not be injured, even in jest.

Never injure a friend,
even in jest.

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.

Love taught me that your honour did but jest.

Every love story is a ghost story.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.

The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.

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

Many true words are spoken in jest.

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

Jest not with the eye or with Religion.

In jest, there is truth.

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

Jest with your equals.

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

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

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