Eminem
Rapper, songwriter, record producer
"A lot of truth is said in jest."
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Jest
42 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Many a true word hath been spoken in jest."
Jonathan Swift
Satirist, Writer
"Many a truth is told in jest."
James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"There's many a true word spoken in jest."
Elizabeth I
Queen
"It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting."
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"The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh."
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"His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it."
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"The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another."
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"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
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"Jests that give pains are no jests."
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"Every love story is a ghost story."
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"Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest."
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"The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest."
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"I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —"
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"In jest, there is truth."
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"The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest."
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"Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest."
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"Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed."
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"I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest."
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"Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest."
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"Jest not with the eye or with Religion."
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"often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest."
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