Quotes about Mockery

That boy's so dumb he couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the directions were on the bottom.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Their mockery is something like we hear today. "Germany prays to God; America prays to God; England prays to God: On whose side is God?" The implication being that God must necessarily be a geographical Deity restricted to one people, one race, and one nation. The answer to that taunt is, of course, that if we prayed as we should, we would all be on the same side because the perfect prayer is: "Thy will be done."

Though you," said he, "can so easily mock God, the world, and your own conscience, yet will I not do so.

Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

We laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at feeling superior to them.

A dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn.

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their native language, and while they writhed, we impaled them, we peppered them, we scarified them, with their own vile verbs and participles.

optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the unspeakable sufferings of humanity.

Me? You are laughing at me. Put your hand here. This has no theology.' I mocked myself while I made love. I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement.

The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name... and they say golf is a quiet game