If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low. — Charles Ludlam Copy Share Image
The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. — Ana Gasteyer Copy Share Image
The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections. — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Ambrose turned on his heel and stormed off, but before he made it through the door, Elodin burst out singing: ‘He's a… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
If the cross is a personal act of violence perpetrated by God towards humankind but borne by his Son, then it makes… — Steve Chalke Copy Share Image
First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?" "Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
I don't even know in American educational history classes how much of D-Day, World War II, all of that is taught versus… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Legalizing pot would benefit society by first off having laws applicable to all, without those in control breaking the laws and making… — Steven Machat Copy Share Image
He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A gadget connoisseur has to be able to suspend feelings of disbelief, pessimism, and mockery. The phrase 'That thing ain't gonna last… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Tobias," I say anyway. My hands shake, but not from fear this time– from anger. "Where is he? What are you doing… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and… — Clementine Ford Copy Share Image
“Honor He Wrote Sonnet 20 The more you break me, the stronger I become. The more you hate me, the gentler I… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
Sometime something makes a mockery of everything and leads to nothing. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
“Later, when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question...so break 'yo'self'!” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art. — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
