Quotes About Mockery

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

Everything needs to be lampooned. I believe that there's not any sacred ground.

Great comedy is always sadistic.

Imitation is the sincerest form of pain.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

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 at other nations, and all are right.

Comedy is based partly on mean-spiritedness.

And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.

How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.

Ce râzi, domnule? întreb? nemul?umit Gogu Apostolescu. De ce râzi? Râzi de mine? - Sigur c? da, puiule, zise Titel Negruzzi. Dar de cine vrei s? râd? De mine? Ar fi nedemn s? râd de mine tot eu; eu m? respect, mo?er.

The poem says you only think you're alive but about to be born your radioactive heliographs mock the moon's tongue." — Philip Lamantia, "Fin Del Mundo

scoffing cometh not of wisdom...

He's surprised: But how do you know it? I say: It's on the way to Santiago de Compostela. He asks if I've never been there. I tell him no, never, but I read about it in a book and remembered it. He makes fun of me, saying: I was sure you were a boy like that, one who knows things just because you read it in a book. He then becomes despondent and adds: But what's worse is that if someone asked both of us, I'm pretty sure you would be able to talk about it way better than I could.

Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming, coldness, insolence, perhaps even contempt. But they're mistaken, and that makes them furious. They commit an awful crime. This is doubtless the reason why most saints end up as martyrs.

All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.

I was a 'bathroom actor' and people used to laugh at me, listening to my lofty aims and ambitions.

I enjoy laughing at other people being funny.

This was everyday life on social media, each side lurching toward mockery and attack — fanning the flames of the divisive chaos from which Trump, the Twitter candidate, had risen.

It felt like a vast left-wing conspiracy to pretend to have found Eric André's performance funny. This was everyday life on social media, each side lurching toward mockery and attack — fanning the flames of the divisive chaos from which Trump, the Twitter candidate, had risen. But

like sticking a red nose on a cadaver and calling it Ronald McDonald.

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