Jest Quote by Elizabeth I Download Open image “It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.” — Elizabeth I ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jest Trade
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness. — Horace Copy Share Image
I am usually a fun-loving person, and I say most of the things in a jest. Sometimes I get in trouble, but over a… — Ranveer Singh Copy Share Image
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
They's a heap more to God's will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit's God's will for us to be good and do good,… — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
I say that in jest a little bit, but Donald Trump is a blue collar guy with a balance sheet. That's the way he… — Donald Trump, Jr Copy Share Image
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters poor mortals… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
“Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvellously made and for some great end. Although he is… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
The one from among the Muslims who recites the Qur'an but in the end finds his way to hell, is considerd to be among… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president of the… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
