Quotes About Mockery

If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.

Un hombre cornudo es objeto de burla universal.

The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.

if one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying those things that would elicit laughter from strangers? The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.

Ladies and gentlemen, cizzens, I give you—satire!

With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you're parodying.

I'd sneer and tell him he's got the cerebral finesse of an amoeba and delight in his squint of confusion.

Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

It's embarrassing to tell you how much my friends make fun of me. Seriously, when you have a doll made of your face, it's ridiculous how creative your friends can get... pictures, videos, little animated cartoons that they've made.

Matthew groaned inwardly. He hated games that served no purpose other than to make fools out of the participants.

Fustilarian?

Every man likes to think there's a part of his nature that remains untamed and unsubdued." "You know all about men, do you?" he asked with an edge of mockery. "Mr. Ransom, the male sex has ceased to be a mystery ever since my first course in practical anatomy, which included the dissection of a cadaver.

He's an undersized pissant with delusions of adequacy.

It's her joke on the world of false narratives. Her mockery of a social media lifestyle where everyone projects some kind of brand, like they're selling a product. And she pretends she's this rich chick with an ultraglamorous globe-trotting lifestyle. And I join in sometimes. Because it seemed fun. No harm, no foul, right? But lately she's been posting more and more photos of herself inside her clients' houses.

You can do so much with body posture, facial expressions. You can exude confidence, appear as though you own this world. It's our mockery of those who think they do, and who exploit others.

You don't have to make fun of it. Actually I do, I said. I make fun of almost everything.

Our culture mocks primitive cultures and prides itself on suppression of natural instincts and impulses.

And when you fall from that parapet,the sound you'll be hearing as you go down will be me,laughing my head off.

Talvez a imaginação lhe mostrou, ao longe, o famoso olho da opinião, a fitá-lo sarcasticamente, com um ar de pulha; talvez uma boca invisível lhe repetiu ao ouvido as chufas que ele escutara ou dissera outrora.

Laugh at your problems... everyone else does.

Beware of laugh at and laugh with; the only people who laugh at you are the ones who pretend to laugh with you.

The fool calls everyone around him a fool and everyone around the fool calls the fool a fool.

They ridicule us for taking orders from a book that was written thousands of years ago, as if truth changes with time.

Meu caro irmão, talvez o melhor seja zombar de nossas pequenas misérias e também um pouco das grandes misérias da vida humana.