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Quotes About Mockery

Stop sucking your finger," Gawyn said with a grin. "We know you are a pretty little girl; you do not need to prove it to us.
~ Robert Jordan
Derrière mon dos, un officier de sa suite chuchota d'une voix moqueuse : Eh bien on leur donne quand même une douche après tout. Il y eut deux ou trois rires étouffés.
~ Robert Merle
I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Are you making fun of me? asked Emily gravely.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Hayat?mda yank?lardan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey yok... Kat?p umutlar?n, hayallerin ve sevinçlerin yank?lar?. Güzel ve alayc?lar.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Perhaps the god who had made the Cat People intended them as a joke. They had schools, but no education; politicians but no government; people, but no personal integrity; faces, but no concept of face. One had to admit that their god had gone a little too far with his little joke.
~ Lao She
So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the ultimate badge of shame-'That's so 60's!'-the entire decade having been mocked so effectively that social protest seems outlandish and 'so last century,' just another style excess like love beads and Nehru jackets. No, rebellion won't pose a problem for this social order.
~ Laura Kipnis
I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I'm your bodyguard. If you die under my protection, the other bodyguards will make fun of me.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
all I can say of the matter, is—That he has either a pumkin for his head—or a pippin for his heart,—and whenever he is dissected 'twill be found so.
~ Laurence Sterne
Some stand-up comic cracks, 'No, Melinda no es linda.' They call me Me-no-linda for the rest of the period. This is how terrorists get started, this harmless fun.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
~ Khalil Gibran
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
~ John Updike
You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Come, Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.
~ William Shakespeare
Later, " Amos said, "when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die.
~ James S.A. Corey
Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.
~ Adam Ant
quienes se burlan de la amistad [...] bien pueden ser los mejores amigos del mundo», quizá porque quienes lo hacen abordan ese vínculo con expectativas más realistas que el resto.
~ Alain de Botton
Beyond the light was that distant line of horizon she had glimpsed from on high—a line like a solitary prison bar, needing no intersection with other bars to keep her jailed. And she decided then and there that she would not stay here and be mocked; she would not.
~ Alan Brennert
Crux sneered. "That's an awfully big word for a thirteen-year-old." Valkyrie resisted the urge to hit him. "Actually, it's not," she replied. "It's fairly standard. Also, I'm fourteen. Also, your beard's stupid." "Isn't this fun?" Skulduggery said brightly. "The three of us getting along so well.
~ Derek Landy
Because no one wants to see you,' sneered Kama. 'And no one can see you,' retorted Yama.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
La América entera se ha burlado de aquellas famosas fiestas de Buenos Aires y mirádolas como el colmo de la degradación de un pueblo; pero yo no veo en ellas sino un designio político, el más fecundo en resultados.
~ Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Laugh hard at the absurdly evil.
~ Jenny Holzer
Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.
~ Jeremy Taylor