Jest Quotes

109 Jest quotes by 89 unique authors

The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according… — Murasaki Shikibu
There's many a true word spoken in jest. — James Joyce
The ten days we passed there [at Ta ChÃªng Tzu], we were the song of the drunkard and the jest of the abjects; but the… — James Gilmour
Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They jest can't buzz any slower. — Kin Hubbard
Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving. — James Russell Lowell
Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that… — John Donne
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. — William Shakespeare
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness. — Horace
Speak not injurious words, neither in jest nor earnest. Scoff at none though they give occasion. — George Washington
Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and… — Annie Dillard
An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier… — Alexander Pope
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the… — Henri Poincare
A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. — Tacitus
You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have… — Harold Bloom
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest — Michel de Montaigne
Many a truth is told in jest. — Jonathan Swift
Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the… — Baltasar Gracian
I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly… — Henry David Thoreau
The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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