A Quote by Katharine Tynan

The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.

Katharine Tynan

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Always Even Irish Jest Tears Though

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Katharine Tynan
Irish - Writer
January 23, 1861 - April 2, 1931

I am usually a fun-loving person, and I say most of the things in a jest. Sometimes I get in trouble, but over a period of time, I think people now realise that most of the things I say are in jest.

Ranveer Singh

"The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in," says he, with a grin, "'T the blackbird an' phoebe are smarter 'n we be? Jest fold our hands, an' see the swaller An' blackbird an' catbird beat us holler? ... Jest show me that! er prove 't that bat Hez got more brains thans's in my hat, An' I'll back down, an' not till then!"

John Townsend Trowbridge

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A friend must not be injured, even in jest.

Publilius Syrus

Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.

Samuel Johnson

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

Edgar Allan Poe

If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.

Isaac Newton

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

Samuel Johnson

In jest, there is truth.

William Shakespeare

Jest with your equals.

Bion of Smyrna

Jest not with the eye or with Religion.

George Herbert

It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended.