Quotes About Mockery

Love, you mock us for your sport.

We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.

Misery makes sport to mock itself.

I make a lot of jokes about vegetarians in my act but most of them don't have the strength to protest.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

Besides, one requires the excitement of being hateful in the eyes of the accused, in order to lash one's self into a state of sufficient vehemence and power. I would not choose to see the man against whom I pleaded smile, as though in mockery of my words. No; my pride is to see the accused pale, agitated, and as though beaten out of all composure by the fire of my eloquence.

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

She look me over from head to foot. Then she cackle. Sound like a death rattle. You sure is ugly, she say, like she ain't believed it.

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

BALLOON, n. A contrivance for larding the earth with the fat of fools.

The gods love to laugh at a happy man, however.

You're a fine one to talk, Skinny Rikke. Every pinch o' meat fell off you when you went to see the witch. You're like a head stuck on a spear these days, but without the flies. Most o' the flies, at least." And she burst out laughing.

A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.

The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.

Sarcastic and merciless one, you glory in the pain you give!

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that is ungentle or untutored or evil or mockery is as a rude stone cast at them, and they suffer all day long, or as Paul remarks they are slain every moment.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

Fools make a mock at sin.

As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool.