Mockery Quotes
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Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.
Hart Crane
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In mockery I have set
A powerful emblem up,
And sing it rhyme upon rhyme
In mockery of a time
Half dead at the top.
William Butler Yeats
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Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
Sophocles
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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
Honore de Balzac
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
William Hazlitt
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Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man, That I did never, no, nor never can, Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye, But you must flout my insufficiency?
William Shakespeare
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No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
Charlotte Bronte
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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
William Shakespeare
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The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of.
Dolly Parton
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Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
William Godwin
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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It’s so much easier for people to get excited about disliking something than agreeing to like it. The circle jerk of mockery and self-congratulation was so intense I didn’t even notice I was at its center. It was so easy to get people to follow me, and in the end, that’s what I wanted.
Hank Green