Jest Quotes - Page 5

• The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

  Victor Hugo

  Laughter, Spring, Doors

  "Les misérables".

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• A jest's prosperity lies in the ear

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Ears, Prosperity

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [869]

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• Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

  George Will

  Theory Of Evolution, President, Remember

  George Will (2008). “One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation”, p.117, Crown Forum

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• O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Unseen, Noses

  William Shakespeare, Nikolaus Delius (1858). “Shakespere's Werke”, p.28

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• May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

  Charles Lamb

  Smoking, May, Lasts

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• Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Men, Play

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.810, GENERAL PRESS

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• Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life And Death, Matter, Lost

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Masque of the Red Death”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...

  Paul Simon

  Lying, Boys, Men

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• The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dare, Knows

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1506, Harvard University Press

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• ... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.

  William Cowper

  Cat, Bears, Kitten

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.157

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• Many a true word is spoken in jest

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  True Words

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2016). “The Reeve's Prologue and Tale”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

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• riley: give me a romantic comedy any day. rhoan: your jest a girly-girl at heart, arent you? riley: takes one to know one, bro.

  Keri Arthur

  Girl, Heart, Giving

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• The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Fate, Way, World

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1147, Race Point Publishing

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• 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, Knows

  Alexandre Dumas (1997). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.191, Wordsworth Editions

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• I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name

  André Aciman

  Goodbye, Doors, Names

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• ....there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an "end" can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occured to you, then the book's failed for you.

  David Foster Wallace

  Book, Lines, Way

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• Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Fate, Events, Doe

  Robert St. John, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1960). “The boss: the story of Gamal Abdel Nasser”

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• Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.

  John Webster

  Wit, Seems

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• Many a truth is told in jest.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wisdom, Truth Is

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• Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

  Michel de Montaigne

  Use, Grammar, Combat

  Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, Michael Innes (1928). “Montaigne's essays”

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• 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, Wit

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• His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughing, Shallow, Wit

  "King Henry V".

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• Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

  Laurence Sterne

  Education, Father, Knowledge

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.173

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• I say that in jest a little bit, but Donald Trump is a blue collar guy with a balance sheet. That's the way he likes to have fun.

  Donald Trump, Jr.

  Fun, Blue, Guy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ridiculous, Injury, Ridicule

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