Quotes about jest

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

— Jean De La Bruyere

Jests that give pains are no jests.

— Miguel De Cervantes

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

— William Lloyd

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

— English Proverb

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller