#jest

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#falter #flap #government #her #majesty

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#certain #far #majesty #simplicity #which

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy. ↗

— Jean Racine

#death #enough #filled #majestic #need

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#diverted #jest #least #most #others

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy. ↗

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

#i #majesty #reaps #sow #successor

What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#australians #awed #fascinating #impervious #majesty

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