Many a true word is spoken in jest

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

— James Joyce

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Anthony Standen

Many true words are spoken in jest.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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

— Plautus

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

— Sam Levenson

The Church is that one wherein the true word of God is preached, which Christ left to His Apostles, which the same Church hath…

— Margaret Clitherow

To speak a true word is to transform the world.

— Paulo Freire

It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the…

— C. S. Lewis

The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

— Franz Kafka

Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true…

— Paulo Freire

Never has an angry word spoken ever made this world better.

— Jeffrey Fry

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

— N. Scott Momaday

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“But a word once spoken who can recapture it?”

— Robert Louis Stevenson