Truth In Jest Quotes & Sayings

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. — Tacitus

The justice and truth of God are here written in bloody characters, for the conviction or the confusion of all those that make a jest of his threatenings. Let them not be deceived, God is not mocked. — Matthew Henry

In jest, there is truth. — William Shakespeare

Consider me no fool because my tongue is mad. I salt a truth with jest that it sound not dull and heavy. There is more than jig and cadence in my words. I am of stronger fiber than you think. If there comes a time for proof I shall not fail. — Charles S. Brooks

The things about which we most often jest are generally, on the contrary, the things that worry us but that we do not wish to appear to be worried by, with perhaps a secret hope of the further advantage that the person to whom we are talking, hearing us treat the matter as a joke, will conclude that it is not true. — Marcel Proust

You don't fool me, he says in a low voice.
Is that right?
Yea, he says. I see it in yer eyes. All you care about's yer precious brother.
That aint true, I says.
If it'd been Emmi they took, he says, Emmi an not Lugh ... would you of gone after her?
I take in a breath to say of course I would but the look on his face stops me. there ain't no point in lyin when he already knows the truth.
He leaves go of me an steps back.
I thought so, he says. Yer sister'll be safer with me than she could ever be with you. You jest ride along on yer high horse an leave her to me. — Moira Young

I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more. — Katharine Hepburn

Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. — Cameron Bright

There is nothing I would not have given you to have had you deserve my old opinion of you; nothing! — Charles Dickens

Many a truth is told in jest. — Jonathan Swift

Call me Beth, please," she said. "I am no longer Mrs. Ackerley and have become, to our mutual astonishment, your sister." Hart — Jennifer Ashley

The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest. — Emily Dickinson

Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself. — Anonymous

Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! — Alexander Pope

Stay in the middle,don't get pushed to the side,every chance that's worth taking,is a chance worth the fight — Hillary Clinton

Jacey, I can never give you what you want. You want someone who can open up and discuss feelings, someone who will be an active participant in your life. That's not me and it never will be. We need to pull the plug on this thing now, because once again, you're falling for the wrong guy. — Courtney Cole

A lot of truth is said in jest. — Eminem

Often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest. — Lucy Freeman

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
— Luis Bunuel

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead. — Jonathan Swift