Jest Quotes

Jests that give pains are no jests.

I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny.

A friend must not be injured, even in jest.

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

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

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

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

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

Every love story is a ghost story.

Love taught me that your honour did but jest.

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

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

He who does not like you will defame you in jest.

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest.

Try to let what is unfair teach you.

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

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

Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.

A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.

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

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

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

Jest with your equals.

Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.

Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?

Many true words are spoken in jest.

Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such a fate, For that is my conception of hell-fire.

This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after.

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

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.

When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.

Jest not with the eye or with Religion.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.

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

How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the rest Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.

It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.

What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

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

The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.

riley: give me a romantic comedy any day. rhoan: your jest a girly-girl at heart, arent you? riley: takes one to know one, bro.

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

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

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.

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