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
Don’t call me Lord Snow.” The dwarf lifted an eyebrow. “Would you rather be called the Imp? Let them see that their… — Anonymous 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
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
“I had never yet done such a thing in life, but now I felt a desire to mock. ("In The Court Of… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.' — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The behaviour and approach of 'appointed' governors trying to control 'duly elected' governments amounts to mockery of our Constitution. — M. K. Stalin Copy Share Image
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“She refused at first, saying it would make a mockery of their love. She loved him too much to admit that what… — Milan Kundera 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
We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a… — William Borah Copy Share Image
“Those acidic insults being poured down on you are found in satan's gallons! Watch those who tackle you for you to fall… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality. — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
“Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid." "Any will do," the… — Iain Pears 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
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know… — Joseph Pulitzer 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
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
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image