Jesting Quotes

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. - Francis Bacon

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect. - Jean De La Bruyere

Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity. - John Weiss

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; / Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. - Bible