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«Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity»
Author: John Weiss | About: Irony | Keywords: gravity, irony, jesting
«Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.»
Author: Bette Davis | About: Life | Keywords: jest, jesting
«Many a true word is spoken in jest»
Author: English Proverb | About: Words | Keywords: jest, jesting, spoken
«But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; / Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: convenient, covetousness, filthiness, fornication, jesting, uncleanness
«I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | About: Sex | Keywords: coarse, coarser, coarsest, earnestly, jest, jesting, mystery, respect, seriously, silent, subject
«Jesting is often only indigence of intellect»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere | Keywords: indigence, jesting
«Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: jesting, severe
«Jests that give pains are no jests»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | About: Jest | Keywords: jesting, jests, pains
«He jests at scars that never felt a wound»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Suffering | Keywords: felt, jesting, jests, scars, wound
«A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him who makes it»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: ear, hears, jest, jesting, prosperity, The Ear
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