Mock Quotes

182 quotes by 153 authors

Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness. — Elizabeth Gaskell
What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one:… — John Piper
If you want some adviceâ€”which I'm sure you don'tâ€”you guys should lay off on the magic. Christian still thinks you're moving in on Lissa." "What?"… — Richelle Mead
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier… — John Updike
ROXANE: Live, for I love you! CYRANO: No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness… — Edmond Rostand
Talkâ€”half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled,… — Anais Nin
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what… — Stephen Sondheim
Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human… — H.G. Wells
Did you like question ten, Moony?" asked Sirius as they emerged into the entrance hall. "Loved it," said Lupin briskly. "Give five signs that identify… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked. We called… — Lewis Carroll
And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said… — Lewis Carroll
We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by… — Flannery O'Connor
No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am… — William Shakespeare
Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Better be," Eve said. She mock-bit at his finger. "I could totally date somebody else, you know." "And I could rent out your room." "And… — Rachel Caine
We know of no spectacle more ridiculousâ€”or more contemptibleâ€”than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who… — Christopher Hitchens
Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army." "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility. "I meant those… — Margaret Mitchell
...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable… — Muriel Barbery
I did what I have been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn't escape. I still… — Charlaine Harris
Orion:"Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round so that I may smite it." Foaly: "Smite it with what? Your secret birthmark?" Orion: "Don't… — Eoin Colfer

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