Quotes About Mockery

Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.

As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of him.

The blind man is laughing at the bald head.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Greater Albania?!, this is a mockery of an unprecedented cynicism.

Sabe bien que Dmitri se burla de él a sus espaldas. Dice que es "el hombre de razón", cuyas pasiones están siempre bajo control. Una vez Dmitri preguntó:"¿Qué mundo sería este si todos aceptáramos el imperio de la razón?". Y respondió: "Un mundo muy, muy aburrido". A él le gustaría replicar: "Tal vez sea aburrido, pero mejor que un mundo sometido al imperio de las pasiones".

and the stars were icicles of mockery

But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abysses of space.

Let's face it: 'Twilight' is kind of an easy thing to make fun of.

Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

U was zawsze ironia i ironia.

Fate laughs at (wo)men's schemes.

Fate laughs at men's schemes.

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

As a kid I wore my team's tracksuit all the time. Splash pants or track pants. I wore a hat every day. And then when I got to the NHL, guys would make fun of me that I had the worse style in the league.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks evil men who refuse His moral government (see Proverbs 1:26-27).

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

We make fun of those we're most scared of becoming.