Quotes and Sayings about Jest
"Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived."
- Walter Annenberg
(Related: Liberty, Rest)
"I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy."
- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
(Related: Democracy)
"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Truth, Jesting)
"While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience."
- Joseph Barbera
(Related: Experience, Power, Religious)
"The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge."
- William Bligh
(Related: Science, Knowledge, Present)
"Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue."
- Leonard Boswell
(Related: Business, Success, Americans, Interest, Land, Oak)
"Jests that give pains are no jests."
- Miguel de Cervantes
"The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter."
- Adelbert von Chamisso
(Related: Humility, Now, Respect, Word)
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Friend, Jest)
"It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'"
- Arthur H. Compton
(Related: Intelligence, Faith, God, Truth, Beginning, Universe)
"Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it."
- Bette Davis
(Related: Life, Thought, Jest, Now)
"The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character."
- Charles Eastman
(Related: Nature, Character, Fire, Spiritual, Water, Wind)
"A lot of truth is said in jest."
- Eminem
(Related: Truth, Jest)
"The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue."
- William Falconer
"The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul."
- Eliza Farnham
(Related: Beauty, Experience, Life, Soul, Development, Language, Office, Study, Value, Will)
"The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It's her duty. For her country, she's selfless to the grave."
- Sarah Ferguson
(Related: Life, Country, Duty, Grave, Queen)
"There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy."
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Italy, Taste)
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
- Anatole France
(Related: Equality, Law, Poor, Sleep)
"The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
- Anatole France
(Related: Equality, Law, Poor, Sleep)
"I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest."
- Marie de France
(Related: Love, Business, Jest, Woman)
"I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest."
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
(Related: Jest, Jokes)
"The jests of the rich are ever successful."
- Oliver Goldsmith
(Related: Successful)
"Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion."
- George Grey
(Related: Sea, Tides, Water)
"Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?"
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: English, Houses, March, Parliament)
"I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty."
- John Howard
(Related: God, Difficulty, Queen)
"There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations."
- Washington Irving
(Related: Soul)
"The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them."
- Maurice Jarre
(Related: Music, Idea, Adventure, Frustration, Man)
"Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest."
- Javan
(Related: Jest)
"Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you."
- Pamela Hansford Johnson
(Related: Being, Man)
"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier."
- Rudyard Kipling
(Related: Women, Afghanistan, Jest)
"In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen."
- Ted Koppel
(Related: Fools, Kings, Network, Now)
"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
(Related: Character, Jest, Man, Nothing)
"True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He."
- Alphonsus Liguori
(Related: God, Love, Goodness, Infinite)
"After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised."
- William Lilly
(Related: Peace, Religion, Nation, Nothing, Parliament, Years)
"Judge of a jest when you have done laughing."
- Robert Lloyd
(Related: Jest)
"Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee."
- Christopher Love
(Related: Art, Men, Sons, Will)
"It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter."
- Harold MacMillan
(Related: Government, Duty)
"In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic."
- Karl Philipp Moritz
(Related: Time, Houses)
"Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place."
- Ovid
(Related: Love)
"On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers."
- Robert Peel
(Related: Opportunity, Day, Evening)
"The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator."
- Rick Perry
(Related: Life, Quality, Land, Reflection, Water)
"There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Simplicity, Wit)
"A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy."
- Jean Racine
(Related: Death, Blood, Pleasure, Sadness, Tragedy)
"Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Jest, Will)
"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
(Related: Cynic, Jest, Justification, Wit)
"The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: First, Jest)
"War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Related: War, Delight, Jest, Trade)
"You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day."
- Antony Sher
(Related: Day, Knight, Saying)
"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Related: Imagination, Facts, Memory)
"To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief."
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Related: Jest, Plants, Smile)
"It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space."
- Clifford D. Simak
(Related: Space, Thinking)
"All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest."
- Paul Simon
(Related: Lies, Man, Rest)
"Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful."
- Frederick Soddy
(Related: Nature)
"To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses."
- Charles Stanley
(Related: Experience, God, People, Heart, Conversation, May)
"The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom."
- Charles Stanley
(Related: Time, Word)
"I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Nature, Power, Ideas)
"When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness."
- John Strachan
(Related: Light, Spiritual, Wilderness, Years)
"The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Jest)
"On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view."
- Hideki Tojo
(Related: Thought, Army, October)
"But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown."
- Robert Walpole
(Related: Crime)
"Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?"
- Robert Walpole
(Related: Houses, Parliament)
"Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests."
- Thornton Wilder
(Related: Nature, Children, Right)
"Virtue alone has majesty in death."
- Edward Young
(Related: Death, Virtue)