"His jest shall savour but a shallow wit,……" — William Shakespeare
"His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it."
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William Shakespeare
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3,182 Quotes by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare has 3,182 quotes on this site.
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Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
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People usually are the happiest at home.
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In delay there lies no plenty.
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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Grief makes one hour ten.
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Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.
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I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting…
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
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More Jest Quotes
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one of 109 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration…
— Robert H. Jackson
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Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
— Samuel Johnson
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... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
— William Cowper
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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
— Marie de France
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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
— Samuel Richardson
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
— Charles Lamb
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Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if…
— John Flavel
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I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty -…
— Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
— Robert Lloyd
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