Mockery Quotes
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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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The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.
Josh Hawley
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The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
As is the razor's edge invisible.
William Shakespeare
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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
Moliere
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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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Heathenism had proved unequal to the wants of men; and it was when the most thoughtful among the Pagans were turned away from its hollow mockeries and misleading altars that the anthem of the angels broke clear and loud above the slopes of Bethlehem: "Glory to God in the highest! Peace on earth and good will toward men!
William Mackergo Taylor
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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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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
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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.
Charlotte Bronte
