Quotes About Mockery

The just upright man is laughed to scorn.

They made light of it.

A curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach.

Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker.

It's always been my belief that the best way to weaken your enemies, whether they are bullies, politicians or unpleasant relatives, is to laugh at them.

First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.

Trump has been fiercely mocked in the media since the 1980s. But Trump learned from someone to let all the mockery roll off his back, that the negative publicity was still publicity.

I feel like it's my job to potentially make fun of people publicly, but I do it in a fun manner.

Satire is focused bitterness.

If you're making a satirical show and you're aiming to change something, I'd say you're on a fool's errand.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

We actually became just what it was that we'd set out to make fun of.

There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.

I find award functions laughable. To me, it is just like an extension of a college annual day function.

Nothing is more interesting than repressed emotion. The appearance of sardonic coldness and stoicism which has deceived you is but a hollow mockery; beneath it I secrete a maelstrom of impassioned feeling and a mausoleum of blighted hopes.

What am I to do with you? Redd asked. M-maybe you could- Jack began. The Cat raised a paw. I know. It was a rhetorical question, fools! You don't answer it! Since when do I need help making anyone suffer?

While we can all accept that bullying and abuse betray a lack or loss of respect for other human beings, there is a deeper issue: the devaluing of human life; and that in turn indicates a lack or loss of respect for the Giver of human life and dignity, God Himself. The message a bully sends is a mockery of God's handiwork, a lie that slanders God's nature and negates His love for us.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

A man is lying on his deathbed and in the independence gained by the proximity of death, he says: 'I have spent my life fighting the desire to end it.' Then a pupil mocks his teacher, who talks of nothing but death: 'You're always talking about death and yet you do not die.' 'And yet I will die. I'm just singing my last song. One man's song is longer, another man's is shorter. At most, however, they differ by only a few words.

And that too is human freedom, I thought, self-controlled movement. What a mockery of holy Mother Nature! Were the apes to see such a spectacle, no theater walls could stand the shock of their laughter.

It's funny... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing... the line you are not to cross.

Isn't mockery the province of the insecure?

Curates are such triflers.

He however fails dismally to live by basic Christian values, and, sadly, his actions are antithetical to the tenets of the faith, if not an outright mockery.