Mock Quotes

182 quotes by 153 authors

He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what… — Tacitus
Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. — William Shakespeare
You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose… — Oscar Wilde
Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it. — Matthew Arnold
To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting… — Ernest Istook
On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary. — Mindy Kaling
Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made… — Alicia Keys
You cannot mock God because whatever good thing you do, you're gonna reap for it. — Joseph Prince
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. — Anna Quindlen
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. — William Shakespeare
Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with… — Michel de Montaigne
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock… — Arundhati Roy
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand… — William Shakespeare
Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While… — William Shakespeare
What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor… — Chuck Palahniuk
The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress." --Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing… — Barbara Ehrenreich
A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained… — P.G. Wodehouse
The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly… — Wystan Hugh Auden
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be… — Flannery O'Connor
Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision. — Lewis Carroll

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153 authors contributed a total of 182 Mock Quotes, led by these top contributors: