Jest Quotes
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Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.
William Shakespeare -
Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
William Shakespeare
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In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.
Honore de Balzac -
The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.
Emily Dickinson -
The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
William Shenstone -
A lot of truth is said in jest.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
Tacitus -
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
William Shakespeare
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Many a truth is told in jest.
Jonathan Swift -
The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.
Katharine Tynan -
Stephen kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest, Robin’s lost in play, But the kiss in Colin’s eyes Haunts me night and day.
Sara Teasdale -
In jest, there is truth.
William Shakespeare -
Jest with your equals.
Bion of Smyrna