Quotes about mockery

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Mockery is not just the interest of children it is their second meal

Molière -

Displaying vice to the mockery of men deals it a great blow. Men put up with admonition but are loath to be mocked. One might be willing to be wicked one cannot bear to appear foolish.

Christopher Paolini - Eldest & Brisingr

Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.

Criss Jami - Healology

What I admire about the modern atheist is not at all his logic, but rather his gift of imagination. There will always be the cartoon versions of Christianity further perpetuated by the extremist atheists who do not possess the humility to ask real scholars and theologians its difficult questions. There is little doubt that the atheist has the bigger imagination: the first reason is due to his persistent caricatures of what constitutes a Christian; the second because of his belief that most of hi

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

Don’t deceive yourself; laughing at someone’s weakness is not the way to reveal your strength. Your strength is in the help you offer, not the mockeries you deliver!

Michelle M. Pillow -

My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.

Ikechukwu Izuakor -

Until pains are endured, depressions surmounted, mockeries ignored and goliaths conquered, destiny might not be achieved

Mamur Mustapha -

Laugh not at the dead, for the corpse at your feet is prophetic of your own destiny.

Criss Jami - Venus in Arms

In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter - Socialism and Democracy

Please do not think that I am accusing socialists of insincerity or that I wish to hold them up to scorn either as bad democrats or as unprincipled schemers and opportunists. I fully believe, in spite of the childish Machiavellism in which some of their prophets indulge, that fundamentally most of them always have been as sincere in their professions as any other men. Besides, I do not believe in insincerity in social strife, for people always come to think what they want to think and what they

Howard Tayler -

Maxim 8: Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it's on the far side of the airlock.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Bert McCoy -

Sarcasm is waster on the young.

Marty Rubin -

You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.

Munia Khan -

The real satire starts when I’m shockingly mocked,not mockingly shocked.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question...so break 'yo'self'!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

A small temptation can stop a great glory and turn great joy into a great sorrow

Iain Pears - The Dream of Scipio

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid.""Any will do," the rabbi replied in Provençal."Splendid. Latin it is," said Pope Clement.

Thomas More -

The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.

Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.

Erica O'Rourke - Dissonance

Given a choice, it seems like pity would be easier to bear than mockery, but that's not true. Mockery hardens defenses; pity slips through, finds the softest places you have, and slices to the bone. Pity will break you, every time.

Erich von Däniken - The Return of the Gods: Evidence of Extraterrestrial Visitations

Mockery ends where understanding begins.

Ikechukwu Izuakor -

When the gates of mockery and abuse is opened, the heart becomes a shock absorber

Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela -

The mockery towards the ignorant reflects ignorance.

Katherine Paterson - Of the Nightingales That Weep

I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.

William Shakespeare - Othello

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.

Mette Ivie Harrison - The Princess and the Hound

A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. She stamped her little foot at me."He pointed down to her toes as if she were a child yet.Then he straightened his shoulders. "But I sent her back to the nursery, where she belonged, and told her to play with her dolls instead. As everyone knows, a female on a hunt is a distraction at best and bad luck at worse."Which explained why Beatrice went into the woods with her hound alone, George thought.

Ashley Newell -

I have led you down a road of deception just to correct you and make you look like an uneducated ass

Auliq Ice -

Weeping for other people's pain isn't true weeping if it doesn't come from deep down your heart.

Orson Scott Card - The Lost Gate

Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender heart," he said.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

And when the end comes, we shall see the end. We shall see and understand how we started better. We shall see those who started well and those who ended well. When the end comes, we shall surely see the end!

Honoré de Balzac - Père Goriot

Here comes Mamma Vauquerr, fair as a starrr; and strung up like a bunch of carrots. Aren't we suffocating ourselves a wee bit?' he asked, placing a hand on the top of her corset. 'A bit of a crush in the vestibule, here, Mamma! If we start crying, there'll be an explosion. Never mind, I'll be there to collect the bits--just like an antiquary.''Now, there's the language of true French gallantry,' murmured Madame Vauquer in an aside to Madame Couture.

Elton Trueblood - Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

It is most remarkable that Lincoln, when he saw so much that was vulnerable in the leadership of the Church, did not move to the opposite error and become a scoffer.

Arthur Schopenhauer -

I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker. Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud,it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.