Jack Kerouac
Novelist, Poet
"and the stars were icicles of mockery"
Mockery quotes
Mockery
20 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Sophocles
Playwright, Philosopher
"Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?"
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain."
Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes"
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"The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery."
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"I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry."
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"If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice."
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"As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]"
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