Best Mockery Words
136 Mockery quotes by 121 unique authors
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Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my…
— Pablo Neruda
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You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila…
— Khaled Hosseini
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I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here the start and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi,…
— Thomas Merton
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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 most of the…
— Walt Whitman
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A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested…
— James A. Baldwin
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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. I'd…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?" "Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man,…
— William Shakespeare
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The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.
— Dean Koontz
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She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to…
— Thornton Wilder
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He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer…
— Alain de Botton
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It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Don’t call me Lord Snow.” The dwarf lifted an eyebrow. “Would you rather be called the Imp? Let them see that their words can cut…
— George R. R. Martin
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I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still…
— Stanislaw Lem
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Ah,” said Magnus. “Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are…
— Cassandra Clare
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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
— Yann Martel
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When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and…
— William Shakespeare
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When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the…
— Robert E. Howard
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They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.
— E F Schumacher
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
— Christopher Hitchens
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There is no free will if to exercise it in certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and renders it counterfeit.
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Dad has always been - and still is - a great influence on me. He has always stood up for spirit, staying true to his…
— Linus Roache
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