Jest Quotations

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

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

A lot of truth is said in jest.

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

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

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

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

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

Love should make us smile, jest and laugh. A stiff relationship is a symptom of a demented affair. God loves a cheerful lover.

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

Every love story is a ghost story.

Bitter the jest when satire comes too near truth and leaves a sharp sting behind it

Many a true word is spoken in jest

Love taught me that your honour did but jest.

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

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

Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.

Jest not with the eye or with Religion.

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

A friend must not be injured, even in jest.

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

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

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

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

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.

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

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

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

Have it jest as you've a mind to, but I've proved it time on time, / If you want to change her nature you have got to give her lime.

Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles

We never know where we go when we are going, We jest and shut the door; Fate - following behind us -bolts it, And we accost no more

In jest, there is truth.

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.

Is it true, what you told me jest now, that you never done a hand's turn o' work in all your born life? Must feel kinder awful, don't it?

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.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.

Many a truth is told in jest.

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

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

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

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

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