Jest Quotes · Page 6

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your…

— Rudyard Kipling

you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man…

— Ellen Glasgow

You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when…

— Ned Block

The ten days we passed there [at Ta Chêng Tzu], we were the song of the drunkard and the jest of the…

— James Gilmour

Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the…

— Samuel Johnson

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

— Anonymous

A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast,…

— William Cowper

Love taught me that your honour did but jest.

— Graham Greene

“But I would stay. For you. If you want me. If—” “I want you.”

— Marrisa Meyer

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

— Plautus

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

— William Shenstone

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

— William Shakespeare

How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the…

— Horace Walpole

The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest,…

— Murasaki Shikibu

Better lose a jest than a friend

— Thomas Fuller

It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject…

— Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

— William John Locke

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

— George Herbert

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest…

— Jonathan Swift

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— John Webster

I often say in jest, 'We haven't changed the world but hopefully we've become an accessory.'

— Kenneth Cole

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

— Samuel Johnson

I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave.…

— Ted Danson