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O that I were a mockery king of snow
Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke
To melt myself away in water drops! — William Shakespeare

I vote, I participate, I am present, I am concerned - mirror of a paradoxical mockery, mirror of the indifference of all public signification. — Jean Baudrillard

The psychopath [or sociopath] makes a mockery not only of the truth but also of all authority and institutions. - Arnold Buss, M.D." Psychopathology — Jack Olsen

Isn't mockery the province of the insecure? — Roland Merullo

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

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. — Emily Robison

indeed, bad news has a way of slithering into good days and making a mockery of complacent joys. — Imbolo Mbue

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

The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery. — Norman Douglas

Only the degraded want to degrade others. — Marty Rubin

My God is a child, so wonder not that the spirit of this time in me is incensed to mockery and scorn. — C. G. Jung

The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of. — Dolly Parton

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

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain. — Honore De Balzac

Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace. — E.F. Schumacher

The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion — Dean Cavanagh

There is no free will if to exercise it in certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and renders it counterfeit. — Neale Donald Walsch

And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show. — Alexander Pope

The praise of the wise few is more important than the mockery of the foolish many, — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was! — Homer

He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery. — Stella Gibbons

Greater Albania?!", this is a mockery of an unprecedented cynicism. — Ismail Kadare

It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all. — Edgar Allan Poe

Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious. — Yann Martel

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty. — Joseph Sobran

What was the good of restrained laughter; it made a mockery of the entire practice of laughing. — Jean Plaidy

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

It was not the mockery of malice - it was the laughter of a salute. — Ayn Rand

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

Victory without God is mockery and delusion, but ... defeat with God is not defeat. — William Faulkner

The mockery of it! he said gaily — James Joyce

Observe him, for the love of mockery — William Shakespeare

Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery. — Khalil Gibran

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art. — Ricky Jay

'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at. — Richard Eyre

What cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes — William Shakespeare

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit. — Jean De La Bruyere

I have never seen a more desperate symbol of hope since the world ended and I've never felt the world more desperate to make a mockery of it. — Courtney Summers

Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic. — Jim Morrison

If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low. — Charles Ludlam

The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a
solipsist. — Kedar Joshi

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values. — Bill Ayers

It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love. — Jon Corzine

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it. — William Hazlitt

That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself. — Leo Tolstoy

and the stars were icicles of mockery — Jack Kerouac

This is what we are meant to do - protect, serve, cherish. What Maeve offers is... a mockery of that. — Sarah J. Maas

Mockery! bitter, biting mockery of grey hairs, have I lived enough joy to wear ye; and seem and feel thus intolerably old? — Herman Melville

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness. — Theodor W. Adorno

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back. — Woody Allen

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. — Thomas Moore

Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery. — Terry Jones

[It's] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97 — Marcel Benabou

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control. — Rich Lowry

Ah," said Magnus. "Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated. — Cassandra Clare

A pity, ' he said, without a trace of mockery. 'It seems that those who possess the greatest beauty appreciate it the least. — Jeanne Kalogridis

If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice. — Jane Goodall

How easy it is to mock, how hard it is to understand! Yet mockery has ever mocked the mocker. — Mikhail Naimy

Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. — Milan Kundera

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. — George Santayana

Be careful not to laugh at the Phoenix when she goes up in flames, or you'll be left in the dust when she grows her new wings and flies swiftly away. — Cristen Rodgers

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us. — John Updike

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. — Orson Scott Card

You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.' — Marianne Williamson

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

Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery ... — Martin Luther

But if there is no cosmic Plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile from a place, moreover, that does not exist. — Umberto Eco

Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both. — Ravi Zacharias

Later," Amos said, "when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die." Holden — James S.A. Corey

To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ. — Charles Spurgeon

Later, when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die. — James S.A. Corey

Virtue tested: Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart? — Khalil Gibran

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

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question ... so break 'yo'self'! — T.F. Hodge

Mockery is childish. It does not become you. — Veronica Roth

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies? — Sophocles

The real satire starts when I'm shockingly mocked,not mockingly shocked. — Munia Khan

Let them see that their words can cut you and you'll never be free of the mockery. — George R R Martin

The whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. — Bertrand Russell

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

Mockery had gone too far during Hearts. There had been an attempt at strangulation and then her ear had been perforated by a fork. — Michael Ondaatje

To live an oversized life is to make a mockery of your destiny. Many can't prosper because the life they are living is bigger than them. — Patience Johnson

Perseverance ... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. — William Shakespeare

Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery. — Hart Crane

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In mockery are the seeds of impiety sown. — Graham McNeill

He had no affection left in his life - only the pitiful mockery of it in the camaraderie of vice. — Upton Sinclair

The common misery of destitution would have made a bitter mockery of a marked insistence on social differences. Gaspar — Joseph Conrad

Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things, — Celeste Ng

He would love her with a passion that both frightened and revived him, a desperation that made a mockery of his neat dreams for the future. — Kate Morton

When billionaires can give $50 million, $500 million to a campaign, and there's no limit, then it makes a mockery of 'one man, one vote.' — George Takei

That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning. — Ned Sublette

We make a mockery of God's forgiveness when we deliberately engage in sin because we think He will forgive it later. — Billy Graham

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world. — Helen Keller

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health ... — Friedrich Nietzsche

Mockery is not just the interest of children; it is their second meal — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery. — Moliere