Quotes About Mockery

O that he were here to write me down an ass!

What! my dear Lady Disdain, are you yet living?

I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

Thou lily-liver'd boy.

That's the humor of it.

The horn, the horn, the lusty hornIs not a thing to laugh to scorn.

This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.

I object, your honor! This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.

You were laughing at where I work." "So? You do!" "Yes, because I work there. I'm laughing in the face of adversity, you're just laughing in my face!

Lincoln managed to both respect religion and parody it

Oh, shut yer face, ya idiot!

Say again, over," he announced. "I was saying that I'm going from here on foot," Arkeley told them. "You can follow however you choose but this place was never meant for a military parade." "He's making fun of your truck," Caxton told Captain Suzie.

The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion

Underpinning many individual claims to want equality of outcome in society is a motive to elevate ones own morality above others, therefore making a mockery of both equality and morality.

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

What was the good of restrained laughter; it made a mockery of the entire practice of laughing.

The parade, the participation of children, the public mockery, the photographs - all of these were essential elements of prewar anti-Jewish actions. The public humiliation of Jews in German localities followed a script from 1933 through the deportations in 1941-1943. Germans knew this script and followed it as they deported the Jews.

I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.

I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

In inter-state tournaments, they used to make fun of my gear. It didn't bother me. I had my body and my biggest weapon was my mind.

I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons.

Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.