Jest famous quotes

I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
-- Alexandre Dumas

#Feelings #Despair #Jest

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
-- Annie Dillard

#Made #Jest #Earnest

Jest with your equals.
-- Bion of Smyrna

#Jest

A lot of truth is said in jest.
-- Eminem

#Truth Is #Said #Jest

Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
-- Javan

#Speak #Jest

often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.
-- Lucy Freeman

#Truth #Speak #Jest

Never injure a friend, even in jest.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Friendship #Philosophical #Jest

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
-- Marie de France

#Love Is #Serious #Jest

I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.
-- Ovid

#Poetry #Letters #Jest

A friend must not be injured, even in jest.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Friends #Jest

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
-- Quintilian

#Friendship #Jest #Maxims

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Smile #Plant #Jest

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
-- Samuel Richardson

#Bears #Jest

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
-- William Shakespeare

#Jest

The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
-- William Shenstone

#Infinite #Jest #Sensible

The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.
-- Katharine Tynan

#Tears #Jest #Ireland