Jest Quote by Victor Hugo

“The things about which we most often jest are generally, on the contrary, the things that worry us but that we do not wish…

— Marcel Proust

“Jesters must tremble in fear at the magnificence of your humor.”

— Tracy Brogan

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

— Friedrich Schiller

“...you mustn’t pun, Brumm, puns are produced only in vacant minds. Keep high thoughts and visions of delightful things before you and you won’t…

— John Davidson

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

— William Shakespeare

“Humor depends on the teller and hearer of the jest standing in the same place.”

— Orson Scott Card

“I liked, as I like still, to make words look self-conscious and foolish, to bind them by mock marriage of a pun, to turn…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

— Victor Hugo

“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion, even by the utterly lost, to whom life…

— Edgar Allan Poe

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear

— William Shakespeare

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— David Foster Wallace

“You cannot imagine what wrath and sadness overcome your whole soul when a great idea, which you have long cherished as holy, is caught…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky