Quotes About Mockery

My friends adore 'TOWIE' - the TV documentary series, 'The Only Way is Essex.' They like it, I'm afraid, for the most unworthy of reasons: class mockery. They tune in to wonder in a 'can you believe those people?' way at the natives of Brentwood and Buckhurst Hill.

In Cornwall, it is quite possible to take a stride from the richest vegetation into the abomination of desolation. It has been said in mockery that Cornwall does not grow wood enough to make coffins for the people.

Everybody knows the struggles I went through coming into my career with the free throws and how much work I put into it, how many people made fun of me for not being able to stay in games, this and that.

It did not seem to matter whether I was present or not. After a time I became resentful, feeling that the flowers mocked me, blooming in defiance of my listless misery.

Ooh, a plan," echoed Jack, with utter cotempt. "Wellhooray for that.

Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest

Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

We mock because we love. You know that.

The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.

That's like the dog calling the cat's arse hairy!

Il moque l'accent américain, « ils disent champagne comme John Wayne ».

L'ironie dénonce, le cynisme autorise.

Pueden ustedes reírse de mí, cuando les dé la espalda.

Heading into the race, the perception among political professionals and the press had been that the rival campaign squadrons were more or less evenly matched. But as the smoke cleared, a consensus quickly emerged that the Democrats had methodically been building an atomic clock while the Republicans were trifling with Tinkertoys. Chicago's mockery of Boston was hushed but withering.

A Being who's higher than we are?! LOL!

Perhaps I may do something by writing,' said Charley, very bashfully. 'By writing! ha, ha, ha,' and Alaric laughed somewhat cruelly at the poor navvy—' do something by writing! what will you do by writing? will you make £20,000—or 20,000 pence? Of all trades going, that, I should say, is likely to be the poorest for a poor man—the poorest and the most heart-breaking.

Who's stupid now, Jimbo?!

the laughable is a species of what is disgraceful.

We laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at feeling superior to them.

Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen. -We are used to see that Man mocks what he never comprehends.

Oh, can it," she said irritably. "I've heard it all before. A Tower of Babel in space, eh? And you're the one to bring it down. How disappointing, how banal!" "Miriam, your mockery can't hurt me anymore. I have found faith," he said. And there was the real problem, she realized.

Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen. (Goethe)—We are used to see that Man mocks what he never comprehends.

Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhohnen was sie nicht verstehen.

Summerlee burst into derisive laughter. 'A ptero-fiddlestick!' said he. 'It was a stork, if I ever I saw one.