Quotes About Mockery

Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.

In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.

Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.

Swell, just swell," muttered Howie. "Twenty-nine kids laughing at me in girls' socks carrying a stupid little pillow.

That boy's so dumb he couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the directions were on the bottom.

definition of sarcasm is "a cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound

A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr. – Sydney Smith

And I have seen the eternal footman hold my coat and snicker.

I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.

Your ma was a leech with bad teeth," she taunted. Onua laughed in spite of herself. "Your da was a peahen. I know chickens with more brains than you!

Mercurio," Saffiro snarled, "do not, I beg you, mock me." "Do not, I beg you, beg me not. I mock everyone. Mock, mock, mock. An unhappy trait. Either you must endure it, or you must go home.

Once born into child like faith, brimming with belief, typical people began to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change the world, but over time the world changes them. Soon they forget the faith they once had. Then one day someone tells them the truth, but they don't want to go back, because they're comfortable in their new skin. Being a stranger in this world is never easy.

Sacrilege is acceptable only as a game.

Ahora pasa que las tortugas son grandes admiradoras de la velocidad, como es natural. Las esperanzas lo saben, y no se preocupan. Los famas lo saben, y se burlan. Los cronopios lo saben, y cada vez que encuentran una tortuga, sacan la caja de tizas de colores y sobre la redonda pizarra de la tortuga dibujan una golondrina.

Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

I am drawn to humorous art that is ironic.

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

I love irony.

'Irony' is such an over-used word.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

Don't laugh at a hair joke, Trump.