Quotes About Scoffing

scoffing cometh not of wisdom...

There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

The same disastrous death occasioned 2 Peter 3:3-4, "scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, 'Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.

All men speak in bitter disapproval of the Devil, but they do it reverently, not flippantly; but Father Adolf's way was very different; he called him by every name he could lay his tongue to, and it made everyone shudder that heard him; and often he would even speak of him scornfully and scoffingly; then the people crossed themselves and went quickly out of his presence, fearing that something fearful might happen.

You are perfectly justified in scoffing at the outrageous transparency of it if I tell you that his wife said that he was so pale that he looked as if he had seen a ghost, but that is, indeed, what she said. Art cannot rescue anybody from anything.

Martyrdom, which looked so splendid when consummated selon les regles on Tower Hill or Tyburn, before pitying, or (still better) scoffing multitudes, looked a confused, dirty, ugly business there in the dark forest;

Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?

My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus.