Quotes About Jests

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

Z—ds! damn the lock! 'fore Gad, you must be civil!   Plague on't!'t is past a jest—nay prithee, pox!   Give her the hair"—he spoke, and rapp'd his box.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

The Right Honourable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

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.

He was a talkative man and jabbered away the whole time as his horse meandered about the road. It saved us from having to construct a story for him, though by the time he left us in Banbury, I was most weary of smiling stupidly out from under my hat brim and trying not to squint. As his wagon pulled away, I turned to Holmes. "Next time we do this, I will play the deaf old woman and you can laugh at rude jests for an hour.

My soul is calm and bright as the morning mountains. But they believe I am cold, that I jeer, that I deal in terrible jests. And now they look at me and laugh, and in laughing they hate me too. There is ice in their laughter.

Some [jests] are becoming to a gentleman, others are not; see that you choose such as become you . Irony better befits a gentleman than buffoonery; the ironical man jokes to amuse himself, the buffoon to amuse other people.

Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

A joke's a very serious thing.

I always like to make some jokes, sometimes.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

The jokes. The jokes. The fucking endless jokes.

The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

The coffee was never served. It boiled over, spattered them all, and wet a costly tablecloth and the baroness's dress. But it served the end that was desired for it gave rise to many jests and merry peals of laughter.

You always a wiseass?" "No. Sometimes I'm asleep." He

You always a wiseass?" "No. Sometimes I'm asleep.

Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.

At this he laughed, and so did we: the jests of the rich are ever successful.