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Quotes About Mock

Only a cynic can create horror--for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
And behind it all I saw the ineffable malignity of primordial necromancy, black and amorphous, and fumbling greedily after me in the darkness to choke out the spirit that had dared to mock it by emulation.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
offend the Church was unwise, to mock old courtiers and women imprudent, to insult Catherine foolish and to outrage the Guards simply insane – to do all of these was suicidal. Frederick
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Romney who showed up at CPAC in early 2007 vehemently embraced the conservative cause and openly mocked his home state and its liberal reputation.
~ Steve Kornacki
Laughing, he held up his hands in mock surrender. "You're too clever. I can't fool you. I'm actually the reincarnation of Napoleon." "You can't be," she played along. "You're much too tall." "I took growth hormones between incarnations.
~ Judith Arnold
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
~ Blaise Pascal
You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.
~ Michael McKean
The confusion, that one so young - me it seems, because I remember - should be so damaged, that no one looked out for me or cared. And even now, I grin and mock myself out of fear. But I hold the truth aloft, a golden torch, sacred, because no one else dares to.
~ Billy Childish
The good thing about a self-help book is that if you misunderstand something then it won't mock you.
~ Stephen Richards
Tool interrupted, 'do you mock me, or your own ignorance? Not even the lichen of the tundra is at peace. All is struggle, all is war for dominance. Those who lose, vanish.
~ Steven Erikson
The marvellous logic of the mad which seems to mock that of the logicians because it resembles it so exactly, or rather because it is exactly the same, and because at the secret heart of madness, at the core of so many errors, so many absurdities, so many words and gestures without consequence, we discover, finally, the hidden perfection of a language.
~ Michel Foucault
We're not retreating. (Illyria) (Spike) It's so much easier if you just tell yourself you're strategically heading in the opposite direction of those that wish to do your harm so that you may mock them at a later time.
~ Brian Lynch
I'm warning you, stay back! This sword has magic.' 'Magic!' the dragon gasped in mock fright. It put a claw to its breast. 'Oh, please, brave man, don't slay me with your magic sword!
~ Terry Goodkind
Well, that settles it," Jason said with mock severity. "Such condescension tells me what I had long suspected." "Which is . . ." "That George Bambridge was not raised with the benefit of a sister.
~ Kate Noble
9Fools mock the need for repentance,b while the favor of God rests upon all his lovers.
~ Brian Simmons
Are you going to help me or just make fun of me? Can't I do both?
~ Ilona Andrews
And men my prophet wail deride!
~ Ilona Andrews
This doesn't mean you're getting a discount. Audrey heaved a mock sigh. Oh well. I guess I'll have to ply you with sexual favors, then. Gnome choked on the soup. I'm old enough to be your grandfather! Audrey winked at him, gathering the empty bags. But you're not.
~ Ilona Andrews
When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?
~ Ted Cruz
I just made random videos with my mom's camera, before YouTube even started. It was just my family and friends in a few spoofs of scary movies and mock talk shows. And then I found out about YouTube so I posted a ton of those videos on there.
~ Lucas Cruikshank
All their doors remained simple doors, on/off switches in the flow between two adjacent places, binarily either open or closed, but each of their doors, regarded thus with a twinge of irrational possibility, became partially animate as well, an object with a subtle power to mock, to mock the desires of those who desired to go far away, whispering silently from its door frame that such dreams were the dreams of fools.
~ Mohsin Hamid
I now had the pleasure of her company 24/7. Joy. Kit broke the awkward silence. "This looks delicious, honey. You've done it again." Grinning, he raised his fork in a mock salute. My dad, the dork. I suppressed a sigh. If this silly, white-gloved dingbat made my father happy—and I knew she did—it was my solemn duty as his progeny to suffer it.
~ Kathy Reichs
Ripred held up his paws in mock surprise. "Oh, dear. Is this where we fight to the death? I didn't expect it so soon.
~ Suzanne Collins
I've seen a couple mock drafts that have me going to the Baltimore Ravens. And if it happens like that, it'll be a blessing. But I'd like to go anywhere that calls my name.
~ Tavon Austin