#jest

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. ↗

— Washington Irving

#elevates #enters #fills #inclinations #into

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#believe #fond #his #jests #level

Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are the attributes of an angel. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#beauty #majesty #beauty

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#blow #brains #come #cut #go

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#grouch #hangs #his #jest #justification

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

— Friedrich Schiller

#jest #laugh #loses #makes #point

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#delight #game #hired #jest #lawyer

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#another #become #jest #mischief #plants

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#his #imagination #indebted #jests #memory

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. ↗

— Paul Simon

#hear #hears #jests #lies #man