Quotes About Jest

MacSweeney enjoyed his predicament to the utmost and directed many a good-humored jest his way. But Kathleen, ever the lady, twinkled inside and preserved an outward air of perfect deportment.

Of all the cruel jests fate had recently played on me, I decided that awakening was the cruelest.

An increasing cackle of complaints, orders, and jests, and what to a European would have been bad language, came from behind the curtains. Here was evidently a woman used to command.

It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning. They shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid the general applause from all the wits who believe that it is a joke.

Can you take him, Gurney?" "M'Lord jests!

I am never serious, and therefore I have to make jokes do duty both for jest and earnest.

I like parting shots; you can't take them seriously and they're often pretty funny.

Of all the griefs, that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than

Of all the griefs, that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.   Has

Sweetest love, I do not go,For weariness of thee,Nor in hope the world can showA fitter love for me;But since that IMust die at last, 'tis best,To use my self in jestThus by feign'd deaths to die.

Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

The only reason I was allowed to have a career for a quarter century as an insult comic is because it's all in jest and all for fun.

The essence of obscenity is the turning of the inner mystery into a jest.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

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This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after.

Life is a jest; and all things show it.I thought so once; but now I know it.

Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest

Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

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

I'll give you something to remember ME by... The back of my head!