Mocks Quotes

53 quotes by 48 authors

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light. — William Shakespeare
People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear… — Vance Havner
Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ. — Garry Trudeau
For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And… — Robert Browning
A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation. It breeds distrust,… — Russell B. Long
Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And… — George Crabbe
The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide… — Bryan Procter
Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools. — John Greenleaf Whittier
The Cabal mocks the natural order. For its minions, death is just a pause between duties. — Kamahl
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it,… — Caroline Knapp
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do,… — Jane Smiley
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. — Walt Whitman
Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change… — Ted Dekker
To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word… — Stephen R. Lawhead
I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time. — Patrick Ness
In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care… — Jeanette Winterson
It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him. — George R. R. Martin
A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit… — Fulton J. Sheen
And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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