Mockery Quotes

It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

— Edgar Allan Poe

There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

— Scott Adams

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

— Anonymous

The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of.

— Dolly Parton

And I am a mockery, who was God before.

— Jan Struther

There's a thin line between mockery and endorsement.

— Dawn Foster

“Go make love to a tube sock.”

— Nenia Campbell

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.

— Marilyn Manson

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

— Bill Ayers

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

— Ana Gasteyer

The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.

— William Shakespeare

“Mockery is just hate’s patina, and every laugh is vicious.”

— Steven Erikson

If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.

— Charles Ludlam

“My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.

— Josh Hawley

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

— Honore de Balzac

“Behind the flattery, the edge of mockery was plain to anyone who must, as a matter of survival, learn to detect it.…

— Shani Mootoo

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness…

— John Ruskin

“Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things…one of the beginnings of the human emancipation is the ability to laugh…

— Christopher Hitchens

He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might…

— Stella Gibbons

There is no free will if to exercise it in certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Day by day, it's worse for my people, especially for the women. And that's why, because of all of these main reasons,…

— Malalai Joya

“Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender…

— Orson Scott Card

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter…

— John Henry Newman

While it is almost certainly true that leaders ought to eat last, the evidence on the ever-widening difference between CEO and average…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

It's sort of like a mockery, in a way of reality because they think everything is smiles and sweetness and flowers where…

— Edie Sedgwick

You have not known what you are--you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed…

— Walt Whitman

I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments…

— Anonymous

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of…

— Hermann Hesse

The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and…

— Aldous Huxley

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

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that…

— William Shakespeare

In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery…

— Misty Upham

No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office.…

— Calvin Coolidge

“On a social level, secularism is safe. As literally the world's most fundamental conformist, the secularist wants to call himself a revolutionary…

— Criss Jami

“A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. She stamped her…

— Mette Ivie Harrison

Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You punk asshole. What was this? A game for you? This is my life’s work you just annihilated and for what? Shits…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that…

— Christopher Hitchens