Quotes About Mockery

The young man evidently thought it too bad that he should be laughed at for his ignorance, and then laughed at for trying to remove it. 

You really are an idiot.

Oh,It's going to be so easy to kill you,scoffed Opal.

Why no aggressive action? Foaly squirmed in a harness built for two-legged creatures. Oh yes, why no aggressive action? How I long for aggressive action. I live for aggressive action! thundered Orion squeakily which was unusual. Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round that I may smite it. Smite it with what? wandered Foaly Your secret birthmark? Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have.

Mulch was not impressed. 'I'm not impressed,' he said.

Mulch was not impressed. "I'm not impressed," he said.

I'm in difficulty, lord, and pitiable: no one cares about me, no one helps me; I'm the object of universal scorn.' [49] Is that the witness you are going to bear, making a mockery of God's summons, when he honoured you and judged you worthy to be his public spokesman?

Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

Vinka Pavi? is an angry woman and her anger shows in the set of her teeth, the lines around her mouth into which her lipstick bleeds, the way she folds her arms. When she laughs it is to mock and in this she finds an ally in her son. But Anka, Anka was born with joy in her soul, to which they feel she has no right. Behind it all, as with so many things in life and in death, lies envy. In the end it gets the better of them.

Voltaire would mock the empire as "neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire,

Coolidge had ladled out his share of mockery, especially in college, but could see now that attack politics yielded poor results. The best way to win was to stick to the issues and forgo any personal attacks or name-calling. Civility would be his rule from now on. He would try it out in his next campaign, for the office of state representative in Boston.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.

Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans. These performances were based in contempt and gave people an opportunity to act out their prejudices.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.

I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.

My family will occasionally take the mick out of the way I move and I always think Thats nonsense, I move like a gazelle: smoothly and swiftly and there is strength and glamour in the way I move. Then you see it on TV and they repeatedly show you bobbing off to do some task and you just look like a marionette.

Those 'Airplane!' type of movies, they've never been my cup of tea.

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

The crowd groaned. "Nice job doofus!" Finn said.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Moque-toi d'une mauvaise réputation. Crains une bonne que tu ne pourrais pas soutenir.

The incident does not mean that most Japanese were not appalled by Aum. It does suggest that many young adults viewed their society as so corrupt and hypocritical that any degree of mockery, if not violence against it, was justified.