A Quote by William Shakespeare

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

William Shakespeare

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Been Hath Jest Many Spoken True Word

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William Shakespeare
English - Playwright
April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

James Joyce

Many a true word is spoken in jest

Geoffrey Chaucer

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

Anthony Standen

Many true words are spoken in jest.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

Sam Levenson

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Lascelles Abercrombie

But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's heart.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess.

Henny Youngman

The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.

D. Elton Trueblood

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

Anthony Trollope

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because our basis is spoken word.

Sandra Cisneros

I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.

Nick Cannon

Since the beginning of establishment, poets and spoken word artists have always been both vocal supporters and critics of government. And in this age of Trump as President, alternative facts, falsehoods becoming truth at the send of a tweet, it's vital that spoken word poetry does its job helping to keep folks 'woke' and not numb or shut down.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I’ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, I’ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into someone’s nightmare?

Yusef Komunyakaa

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

Plautus

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