The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.

Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled…

— Mark the Evangelist

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom…

— Emily Robison

“If one’s friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not, in fact, his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying…

— Dean Koontz

Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because…

— David Seabury

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to…

— Alain de Botton

“Mockery is childish, Beatrice,' She says. 'It does not become you'. 'Mockery is childish, Beatric,' I repeat in my best imitation of her voice.…

— Veronica Roth

“It can be so difficult to train up the peasants,” she said, pretending to commiserate, her voice heavy with irony. “They find it so…

— Caitlin Crews

Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.

— E. F. Schumacher

But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of…

— Adolf Hitler

Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery.

— Terry Jones

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.…

— Karen Marie Moning

“Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

— Ralph Nader

No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean?…

— Charlotte Bronte