Jests Quotes

“The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Sheridaniana: Or, Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Some [jests] are becoming to a gentleman, others are not; see that you choose such as become you. Irony better befits a gentleman than buffoonery; the ironical man jokes to amuse himself, the buffoon to amuse other people.”
― Aristotle, The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle