Mockery Quotes

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)
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. View quote
George Santayana
Where bastard Freedom waves The fustian flag in mockery over slaves. View quote
Thomas Moore
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. View quote
Milan Kundera
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. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgastic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery. View quote
Betty Friedan
Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery. View quote
William Butler Yeats
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. View quote
John Henry Newman
To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever. View quote
Amy Bloom
And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show. View quote
Alexander Pope
Saying "We will destroy terrorism" is about as meaningful as saying: "We shall annihilate mockery." (Terry Jones)
When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come? View quote
Robert E. Howard
First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts. View quote
Bobby Jindal
That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should contemn your height; That with my blame my mockery you receive; Huntress and splendour of the woodland night, Diana of this world, do not believe. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Resident mockery give us an hour for magic. View quote
Jim Morrison
In the first place, an unjust law exists in this Commonwealth, by which marriages between persons of different color is pronounced illegal. I am perfectly aware of the gross ridicule to which I may subject myself by alluding to this particular; but I have lived too long, and observed too much, to be disturbed by the world's mockery. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
I am so afraid of people's words. They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here the start and there the end.I worry about their mockery with words, they know everything, what will be, what was; no mountain is still miraculous; and their house and yard lead right up to God.I want to warn and object: Let the things be! I enjoy listening to the sound they are making. But you always touch: and they hush and stand still. That's how you kill. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. "You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself. View quote
Holly Black
I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony. (Michel Gondry)
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. View quote
Ana Gasteyer
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech. View quote
Emily Robison
The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art. View quote
Ricky Jay
What a mockery today's opinion makes of Hamilton's expectation, announcing the Court's conclusion - that the meaning of our Constitution has changed over the past 15 years-not, mind you, not that this Court's decision 15 years ago was wrong, but that the Constitution has changed. The Court reaches this implausible result by purporting to advert, not to the original meaning of the Eighth Amendment, but to the evolving standards of decency, of our national society. It then finds, on the flimsiest of grounds, that a national consensus which could not be perceived in our people's laws barely 15 years ago now solidly exists. View quote
Antonin Scalia