Jest Quote by William Shakespeare

His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.

— William Shakespeare

He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.

— Baltasar Gracian

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

— Friedrich Schiller

The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch…

— Ellen Terry

Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in…

— George Herbert

A prophet weeps while others are laughing.

— Warren W. Wiersbe

All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.

— Christopher Marlowe

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

— William Shakespeare

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

— James Thurber

Many true words are spoken in jest.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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