Quotes About Mockery

Mike's emotion took him back to the phraseology of school days. 'You are an ass!

Spink-Bottle, you ghastly goggle-eyed piece of gorgonzola

Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'!

Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.

Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.

As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.

Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, Mock on, 'tis all in vain. You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a Gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back, they blind the mocking Eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The Atoms of Democritus And Newton's Particles of light Are sands upon the Red sea shore Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

There is nothing sacred about literature, it is damned from one end to the other. There is nothing in literature but change and change is mockery. I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.

Victory without God is mockery and delusion, but...defeat with God is not defeat.

The village boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys.

Gimmick of pay Rs.1 fine is to just make mockery of judiciary

The soldier who retreated 50 paces jeered at the one who retreated 100 paces

so alone was almost spiritual—but something in Abby's voice makes her pause. "You might have a better idea," she says. "But you two were 'best friends,'" Abby says mockingly. She taps ash from her cigarette into a chipped teacup on the table. Kathryn looks at her. "I thought so." She swallows hard. "But

Death will not be denied. To try is grandiose. It drives madness into the soul. It leaches out virtue. It injects poison into friendship, and makes a mockery of love.

White called Prisonface to life in order that he should suffer, be punished, mocked, reduced to rags and die.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (1741), a scurrilous burlesque, written mostly by John Arbuthnot, that poked fun at Grub Street twittishness. He chose this indelicate item because it was a source of interesting words like 'chicanery', 'confidant', 'troglodyte' and 'piazza', and even the distinctly modern-sounding 'skylight'.

Jane Collier's Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (a spoof conduct book published in 1753)

Nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful.

I DRAW ASIDE THE CURTAIN. You mock us with the beauty of your world.

Fate is coming whatever you do, so quit wriggling around, it's only making you look more ridiculous than you already do.

I have two brothers, and we used to always laugh at oblivious people. People who are so cocky and full of themselves that they just don't realize how stupid they are. And those kind of idiots really make me laugh.

Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you learned about in literature class. As funny as Dunham's 'Girls' is, it can definitely border on Hipster Sexism.

'Silicon Valley' likes being satirized. They've all been waiting for someone to come along and make fun of it.