Badinage Quotes & Sayings

In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

All badinage apart, I don't think you or I very likely to lose our gaiety or our peace of mind for any male creature breathing. — Jane Austen

Unless you sit down and talk to your dad and say, 'Why weren't you there?' and he says, 'I'm going to really tell you the truth,' then you won't know. — Dwyane Wade

Unfortunately, my beauty regime is almost nonexistent when I am training. — Hannah Kearney

And it was funny, that they call it falling, because that was what it was. The ground giving up underneath you. The surge of air. He did not stand a chance. — Bill Cheng

To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.] — Martial

The jump did not go as planned. My father gashed his head and tore his parachute on the tail of the plane. He hit the water hard and submerged. When he surfaced, his head was bleeding, he was vomiting from swallowing seawater, and he had been stung by a Portuguese man-of-war. — George W. Bush

We feel more than we can express, we see more than we can say. — Marty Rubin

There is a certain jargon, which, in French, I should call un Persiflage d'Affaires, that a foreign Minister ought to be perfectlymaster of, and may be used very advantageously at great entertainments, in mixed companies, and in all occasions where he must speak, and should say nothing. Well turned and well spoken, it seems to mean something, though in truth it means nothing. It is a kind of political badinage, which prevents or removes a thousand difficulties, to which a foreign Minister is exposed in mixed conversations. — Lord Chesterfield

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. — Jean De La Bruyere

Murder can sometimes seem justified, but it is murder all the same. You are truthful and clear-minded--face the truth, mademoiselle! Your friend died in the last resort, because she had not the courage to live. We may sympathize with her. We may pity her. But the fact remains--the act was hers--not another. — Agatha Christie

Jimmy was in a league of his own when it came to puerile, half-pissed badinage. — Jamie Holoran

Eliza sitting naked on a pink towel. So beautiful I could die.

Concentrating, all focused in on her sketchbook, but aw, god ...her tail.

Her cute little tail moving slowly back and forth, making a fan shape in the dirt.

She's the one. She really is. I know that now. — Charles Burns