Quotes About Mockery
Hare-Lip sniffed and sneered and Hoo-Hoo snickered, until Edwin nudged them to be silent.
~ Jack London
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Now they're really amused, and burst into laughter. Someone tries a variation while still clapping hands: 'Clipped prick… clipped prick.' Whereupon they begin alternating while clapping their hands: 'Jew… Clipped prick… Jew… Clipped prick.' It seems they're no longer angry, merely having a good time. I keep bouncing in the chair and moaning as the electric shocks penetrate [....]
~ Jacobo Timerman
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Feeling foolish, I scowled at her. "Does it amuse you to mock me, my lady?" "A little." Refreshed by sleep, her eyes sparkled unrepentantly. "You are so very serious, my shadow.
~ Jacqueline Carey
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A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction.
~ James Baldwin
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If you debate the wise, no matter how poor, they will hearken to wisdom.If you debate the foolish, no matter how rich, they will mock wisdom.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
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Your ego is laughing at you behind your back.
~ John Martin Shepherd
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Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.
~ Jake Tapper
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
~ John Burroughs
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People can oftentimes mock me because of my belief in God and many times they insult me when I kneel to pray in many stadiums.
~ Keylor Navas
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
~ Robert Benchley
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
~ Jonathan Swift
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The end of the family paralyses the forces of opposition. The rising collectivist order is a mockery of a classless one: together with the bourgeois it liquidates the Utopia that once drew sustenance from motherly love.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
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Original sin—that is to say, the sin of having been born with human nature that contains within it the temptation to evil—will always make a mockery of attempts at perfection based upon manipulation of the environment.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
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Marty This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too'
~ This Is Spinal Tap
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If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he has to say, and make fun of it.
~ Thomas Carlyle
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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 it.
~ Thomas Carlyle
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Trial by jury, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, will be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
~ Thomas Denman (Lord Denman)
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Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.
~ Richie Benaud
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Man kann sich über jeden lustig machen, der unglücklich ist, man muss nur grausam genug sein.
~ Nick Hornby
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I'll just go rub some salt in her wounds,then i think I'll run out and kick some puppies on my way to foreclosing on my quota of widows and orphans.
~ Nora Roberts
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I am Joe's smirking revenge.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.
~ Clare B. Dunkle
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I had one word for him, and it started with an ass and ended in hole.
~ Victoria Laurie
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