Mockery Quotes

136 Mockery quotes by 121 unique authors

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea… — John Henry Newman
Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he… — Nancy Pelosi
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. — George Santayana
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to… — Lysander Spooner
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and… — Joseph Pulitzer
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. — William Shakespeare
what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes — William Shakespeare
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health... — Friedrich Nietzsche
Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us:… — D. H. Lawrence
We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is… — Rainer Maria Rilke
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, he says, that… — Don DeLillo
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit… — Sarah Orne Jewett
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the… — Hermann Hesse
It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Then what is magic for?" Prince Lír demanded wildly. "What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn?" He gripped the magician's shoulder hard,… — Peter S. Beagle
But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against… — Jack London
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness… — Charlotte Bronte
The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt… — Aldous Huxley
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which… — Michael Palin
You punk asshole. What was this? A game for you? This is my life’s work you just annihilated and for what? Shits and giggles? Or… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery. — Stella Gibbons
If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice. — Jane Goodall
Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness. — Theodor Adorno
and the stars were icicles of mockery — Jack Kerouac
Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to… — Holly Black

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