Jest Quotes

Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure.

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion.

But it's a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.