“Mockery is childish, Beatrice,' She says. 'It does not become you'. 'Mockery is childish, Beatric,' I repeat in my best imitation of… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a… — Hodding Carter III Copy Share Image
I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“He dislikes even to touch these things, for they are the runes of an idiotic but nevertheless potent and evil magic; the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
“I'd lose that smile if I were you." I jingle the car keys in his face. "Your life is in my hands,… — A.G. Howard Copy Share Image
“...if one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. How else would one learn to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“SELF-MOCKERY IS AN UGLIER THING THAN ANY HUMAN FACE, IRIS... YOU ARE SMART AND YOU ARE KIND. DON'T BETRAY THOSE IMPULSES IN… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
We live in an age in which only one prejudice is tolerated - anti-Christian bigotry... Today, the only group you can hold… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act makes a mockery of the Sixth Amendment, which protects your right to a speedy and public trial, and your… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as… — Jon Corzine Copy Share Image
Trump has been fiercely mocked in the media since the 1980s. But Trump learned from someone to let all the mockery roll… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries. Lyrically perform armed robbery, Flee with the… — Inspectah Deck Copy Share Image
Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows… — David Seabury Copy Share Image
“Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
It felt to me like I was living my life in a way that didn't make mockery of my values. That's what… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim-- At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have,… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“It is most remarkable that Lincoln, when he saw so much that was vulnerable in the leadership of the Church, did not… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“mockery! bitter, biting mockery of grey hairs, have I lived enough joy to wear ye; and seem and feel thus intolerably old?” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I think the tone of mockery Heller finds is a part of Mann's irony, but only a part - a brilliant further… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
We're looking at such enormous complexity and variety that it makes a mockery of "celebrating diversity." In the L.A. of the future,… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
But really it’s condescending and patronizing not to make fun of someone because they’re old or stupid or crippled or morbidly obese.… — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image