Quotes About Mockery

Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.

Cuando alguien hace una broma o se burla de cualquier parte de la cristiandad, no me sorprende enterarme después de que en realidad no resultó ser un creyente.

At one point during the war, the Germans built fake airfields out of wood to draw British bombers away from their real targets and to fool the allies into thinking they were strategically more powerful than they actually were. However, the British weren't fooled - and took the mickey out of the Germans by dropping wooden bombs on the decoys!

The psychopath [or sociopath] makes a mockery not only of the truth but also of all authority and institutions. —Arnold Buss, M.D." Psychopathology

I'm mostly laughing, because you're such an idiot.

I would offer to share my knowledge of locks, which, despite your mockery, is actually quite considerable, in a private tutorial, but I fear your aunt would insist on joining that as well," he said, taking her hand and raising it to his lips.

All the little gods of irony must whoop and weep and roll on the floors of Olympus when they tune in on the night thoughts of a truly fatuous male.

What is this world's delight, Lightening that mocks the night, Brief as even as bright

Will you please stop screeching like a fishmonger and run along? Don't you have a bottle of muscatel baking in the oven?

They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.

You know your life has reached another level of sad when your own mother mocks you for being clinically depressed.

I find the folly of men amusing

most of what passed as cleverness was only archness and spite.

To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.

Fortunately, life, which was more powerful than their mockery and whose sweet and strengthening milk he had not fully drained, held out its breast to dissuade him. And he resumed drinking with a joyous voracity, his rich and credulous imagination listening naïvely to the grievances of that ravenousness and making wonderful amends for its blighted hopes.

La cordialité surfait avec autant de plaisir qu'en prend la taquinerie à déprécier.

the cynical could afford the luxury of their cynicism because of the stability of the system they mocked.

Stupid Ape: I had to quantify this with the word "stupid" so as not to offend the ape community. Large of limb, impotent of intellect, he was the kind of guy who lettered in leg-breaking at thug school but flunked the written exam because he didn't know which end of the e-pencil to use.

Rainbow dust? sneered Joe, drawing out each syllable until it snapped from the weight of his contempt.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.

I want to eat, cook, meet famous people and make fun of them.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.