Jest Quotes

“Alas poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest of most excellent fancy.”

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

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

“Life can be a waste by jesting and joking away their time.”

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”

“The mouse that makes jest of a cat has already seen a hole nearby... We don't fear the devil because we are leaning on the resurrection power of Christ!”

“Persons curious in chronology may, if they like, work out from what they already know of the Wimsey family that the action of the book takes place in 1935; but if they do, they must not be querulously indignant because the King's Jubilee is not mentioned, or because I have arranged the weather and the moon's changes to suit my own fancy. For, however realistic the background, the novelist's only native country is Cloud-Cuckooland, where they do but jest, poison in jest: no offence in the world.”

“Death can ride the wind,and he can also walk the streets,looking for those listed,or those he accidently meets.A touch or a whisper,the smell of his breath,it's what lets us know,he beckons that we're next.And hide he doth find,in a closet or a chest,because our days were numbered,'cause death doesn't jest.”

“A lot of truth is said in jest.”