Top Jest Quotes
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Samuel Richardson
Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
Javan
I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
Marie de France
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A lot of truth is said in jest.
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Marie de France All Jest Quotes
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Samuel Richardson 
59% of people like this quote
Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
Javan
57% of people like this quote
I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
Marie de France
57% of people like this quote
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
56% of people like this quote
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Helen Rowland
52% of people like this quote
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
48% of people like this quote
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
Henry David Thoreau
47% of people like this quote