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Quotes About Mockery

That's deep, he said with just a hint of mockery. You a psychologist? I told him I was a writer.
~ Sigrid Nunez
She compensated for this sense of inferiority by making fun of everything. I did not notice it then, but she never made fun of my faults, only of my virtues;
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Love, you mock us for your sport.
~ Sophocles
Minua pilkkasit sokeudestani. Sanon: Et näe näkevillä silmillä, kuka asuu kanssasi tässä alhossa.
~ Sophocles
Anybody that makes fun of me, I'm like, 'Yeah, and then I got touched by Hugh Jackman'
~ Jennifer Lawrence
I must be the only playwright this century to have been pursued up a London street by an angry mob. LIke most battle experiences, my own view was limited by my vantage point at the back of the stalls. There was an inescapable tension in the house. The theatre itself took on a feeling of rococo mockery and devilment, too hot, a snake-pit of stabbing jewellery, hair-pieces, hobbling high heels, stifling wraps and unmanageable long frocks.
~ John Osborne
Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity - clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.
~ John Ruskin
Laugh if you will... They laughed at all great ideas and inventions. They laughed at nitrous oxide.
~ John Sladek
The young men of this generation mock the words of age; it would be well if they mocked nothing else; but what can we expect of those who doubt all and believe nothing?
~ John William Polidori
Numai dupa ce ai suferit pentru toate lucrurile ai dreptul sa-ti bati joc de ele. Cum o sa calci în picioare ce n-a fost chin?
~ Emil Cioran
It is this image, living yet, which we perpetually seek to evade with good works; and this image which makes of all our good works an intolerable mockery.
~ baldwin james vi
Arguments may be refuted, but who, it has been asked, can answer a sneer?
~ balfour arthur james vii
Detesto le canzonature: inaridiscono il cuore e sciupano ogni sentimento
~ Balzac Honore De
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
We have a bitter power who laugh at pain, Who laugh and laugh -- for tears are shed in vain.
~ barker elsa iii
There's a difference between making fun of something and having fun with something.
~ Kristin Chenoweth
To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
~ Edward Gorey
Lady, you called me a mocker, but for once I do not jest. Hear my solemn promise! I will make you an Englishwoman before a year is gone by. And so seal my bond.' He bent his handsome head quickly, and kissed her lips before she could stop him.
~ Georgette Heyer
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
I'm tired of getting made fun of.
~ Geraldo Rivera
We were tired of being made fun of by Arsenio Hall.
~ Rob Pilatus
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Such cool courtesy, Alicia!' Jean-Marc drawled with soft mockery. "Where is the Snow Queen now?' 'Marshalling her forces!' she snapped. 'Have I scattered them, cherie?' he murmured. 'No, you have not!' she said angrily. 'I just didn't expect to have to fight when I arrived here! This is a romantic weekend for me!' "Not any more,' he drawled. "From the minute I kissed you this afternoon, it became war. Our war, Alicia. Our private war..." -JeanMark & Alicia
~ Sarah Holland
I had no character to speak of, no loyalty to anything. I made fun of anyone, given the chance, just as my parents did at home, talking about me, talking about their closest friends.
~ Sarah Manguso