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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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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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
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Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
William Godwin