Destroyed Quote by Samuel Johnson

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

— Horace

Many true words are spoken in jest.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Samuel Johnson

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

— Robert Lloyd

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear

— William Shakespeare

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

— James Joyce

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

— William Shakespeare

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

It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.

— Elizabeth I

Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all…

— Baltasar Gracian