Jest Quotes
109 quotes by 90 authors
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.
— Robert H. Jackson
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Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
— Samuel Johnson
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... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
— William Cowper
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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
— Marie de France
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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
— Samuel Richardson
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
— Charles Lamb
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Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.
— John Flavel
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I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest.
— Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
— Robert Lloyd
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You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz…
— Ned Block
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I jest, of course; premature ejaculation isn't a laughing matter for anyone, except for your friends when you tell them about it on the phone…
— Julie Burchill
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all…
— Alexander Pope
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I'm a big believer that your word is your wand. You know how people say things like, 'Oh my gosh, I'm such an idiot.' I…
— Mariska Hargitay
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A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he…
— William Cowper
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It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice,…
— Plutarch
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All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.
— Thomas Campion
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If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge.…
— Isaac Newton
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