Quotes About Mockery

How dare you?" I said, all ice. "You coward, how dare you do this? If you wanted to reclaim your honor, you should have come to me alone, like a man." The young guard bit his lips, his thickly blemished face going red, but his helpers roared with laughter. "Hey, Telys, you said this pup was a stranger, but it sounds like he knows you well enough!" one of them exclaimed.

It doesn't hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I've actually made comedy out of it. I've made light of that.

I remember when I was at St Mirren someone called me the ugliest thing they had seen at Tynecastle, and two minutes later I scored - it was brilliant. I just laugh it off - I agree with them most of the time!

Gentle mockery or sharp satire aimed at Christians and their leaders have been replaced by abuse of Christianity itself.

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

For all of you out there who don't know what 'ignoramus' is, it's an ignorant lawyer.

One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

Wozu Türme bauen wie der Himalaja Wenn man sie nicht umwerfen kann Damit es ein Gelächter gibt?

Humorlose Leute sind lächerlich.

Hun gjorde en latterlig, feiende sorti, som om hun var på audition for en nyinnspilling av Tatt av vinden.

She pulled a face at

Idiot spelled backward," said Phil, cackling.

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

WHITLOCK 2 (to VRIL): In my humble opinion, Be off to oblivion! Their tears crocodilian Will dry here below. Your act is vaudevillian, Your faults are octillion! Your manners reptilian Would shock a Brazilian! Alas, but a Vrillian's a pitiful beau! A despicable, fickle, unprintable foe! LADY CADENCE: (still in the grip of VRIL) Mr. Cartwright, my most mannered acquaintances hail from Brazil. WHITLOCK 2: My apologies, Your Ladyship. It's a difficult rhyme.

I name my companies things that are intentional, that are specific, that are worthy of ridicule if you are anything other.

I told people I was going to be a wrestler, and they fell down laughing.

As the steps and the passage grew broader, I heard another sound, the thin, whining mockery of a feeble flute; and suddenly there spread out before me the boundless vista of an inner world–a vast fungous shore litten by a belching column of sick greenish flame and washed by a wide oily river that flowed from abysses frightful and unsuspected to join the blackest gulfs of immemorial ocean.

His voice not only dripped sarcasm but seemed to have spent days marinated in it: "How noble." "Objection!

I guess my sense of humour leans more towards irony and tongue-in-cheek performance.

To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

It's the fate of the lion in winter: all his billions, all his television channels cannot rescue him from the mockery that rains down on the aged lecher, his powers visibly waning.

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.