"Mockery is often the result of a poverty…" — Jean de la Bruyere

More Mockery Quotes

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• While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept… — Lewis Carroll
• Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and… — Christopher Hitchens
• Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself… — Mark the Evangelist
• You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values. — Bill Ayers
• Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental… — William Shakespeare
• Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us. — John Updike
• See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a… — John F. Kennedy
• It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on… — Muriel Spark
• Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a… — William Borah

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