Quotations on Jest 5 Quotes Found Displaying 1 through 5
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. - Bette Davis (Keywords: Life, Thought, Jest, Now) I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest. - Marie de France (Keywords: Love, Business, Jest, Woman) If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly. - Georg C. Lichtenberg (Keywords: Character, Jest, Man, Nothing) 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 (Keywords: Cynic, Jest, Justification, Wit) War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. - Percy Bysshe Shelley (Keywords: War, Delight, Jest, Trade)
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