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Quotes About Mockery

When the gates of mockery and abuse is opened, the heart becomes a shock absorber
~ Ikechukwu Izuakor
My principle activity is to tease those who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
except to make fun of them or provide a historical reference.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It has been delicately wrought, said the artist, calmly. As I told you, it has imbibed a spiritual essence--call it magnetism, or what you will. In an atmosphere of doubt and mockery its exquisite susceptibility suffers torture, as does the soul of him who instilled his own life into it. It has already lost its beauty; in a few moments more its mechanism would be irreparably injured.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
But I am weary of this place, and sick to death of playing at philanthropy and progress. Of all varieties of mock-life, we have surely blundered into the very emptiest mockery in our effort to establish the one true system. I
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
what makes it funny to people is that it's a gross distortion of something very familiar. For
~ Neal Shusterman
I worship you like night's pavilion, O vase of sadness, o great silent one, And love you more since you escape from me, And since you seem, my night's sublimity, To mock me and increase the leagues that lie Between my arms and blue immensity. I move to the attack, besiege, assail, Like eager worms after a funeral. I even love, o beast implacable, The coldness which makes you more beautiful.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Le Poëte est semblable au prince des nuées Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l'archer; Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées, Ses ailes de géant l'empêchent de marcher.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l'archer; Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées, Ses ailes de géant l'empêchent de marcher.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Te-admir? veÅŸnic Moartea,o,lume caraghioas?,în zvârcolirea-Å£i tâmp?,sub orice soare-ai sta,ÅŸi-ades,asemeni Å£ie,în smirn? se-mb?iaz?,mijindu-ÅŸi ironia în nebunia ta.
~ Charles Baudelaire
O Poeta é como esse príncipe que voa sobre as praias/ Que moteja o arqueiro e assombra a tempestade no ar;/ No chão, exilado e em meio a vaias,/ As suas asas de gigante não o permitem caminhar.
~ Charles Baudelaire
You are a living mockery of your own ideals. If not, you have set your ideals too low.
~ Charles Ludlam
Very good, Mr. Howard. They were the ones who didn't try to second-guess their commanding officer. Can I suggest that in future you take a leaf from their book and refrain from poking your nose into things you have been told do not concern you? Or at least learn not to be so predictable about it." "Ah—" "Go away before I mock you," he says, sounding distantly amused. I
~ Charles Stross
What kind of power was it if everybody knew that it would never be used? Better to say that it was not there, that it was no more than the power in the anus of the proud dog who tried to put out a furnace with his puny fart.... He turned the yam with a stick.
~ Chinua Achebe
Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
~ Hamza Yusuf
I do, I love to mock stuff. I am a British person.
~ Georgia King
I will be the happiest if TikTok is banned. They mock someone like me most on that platform.
~ Tamilisai Soundararajan
I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
~ Rachel Kushner
I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
~ Rachel Kushner
A Guards regiment, eh, Comrade Colonel? These tit-sucking children could not guard a Turkish whorehouse; much less do anything worthwhile inside of it!" While commenting on how unprepared his troops are. -Alekseyev
~ Tom Clancy
But the truth was she could not bear to be around thier undead,healthy children.More than envy she felt that each laughing redcheeked child of thiers was an accusation of failure,a mockery of her own.
~ Toni Morrison
Oh, that's effective," Sin said sarcastically. "Halt or I shall say halt again.
~ Kinley MacGregor
Fate was indeed a cruel bitch, and she was laughing mightily at him this day.
~ Kinley MacGregor
Passe bem, ignaro, ou melhor, passe mal!
~ Carlos Drummond de Andrade