quotes about Jest
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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 -
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
-- Annie Dillard -
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Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
-- Javan -
often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.
-- Lucy Freeman -
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
-- Marie de FranceSource : Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing
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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 -
A friend must not be injured, even in jest.
-- Publilius Syrus -
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
-- Quintilian -
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
-- Richard Brinsley SheridanSource : John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (2010). “Modern English Drama”, p.116, Cosimo, Inc.
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
-- Samuel Richardson -
Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
-- William Shakespeare -
The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
-- William Shenstone -
The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.
-- Katharine TynanSource : Katharine Tynan (1922). “The Wandering Years”
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