Mockery Quotes

• 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.

  John Henry Newman

  Dream, Ideas, Religion

  'Apologia pro Vita Sua' (1864) 'History of My Religious Opinions from 1833 to 1839'

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• Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Laughing, Religion, Essentials

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.

  Muriel Spark

  Rain, Dirty, Bad Day

  Muriel Spark (2012). “Territorial Rights: A Novel”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Delight, Carefree, Pathology

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• Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Poverty, Results, Wit

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• Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

  Honore de Balzac

  Eye, Tongue, Disdain

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fields, Culture, Individual

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.131, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Bobby Jindal

  Country, Government, Law

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

  Sophocles

  Enemy, Sweetest, Mock

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• The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
  As is the razor's edge invisible.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Wenches, Razors

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Richard Farmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.36

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• Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.

  Betty Friedan

  Sex, America, Promise

  "Feminist icon Betty Friedan dies aged 85" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2006.

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• This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.

  Helen Keller

  Sweat, Long, Fruit

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• Any cause that requires mockery and abuse to advance itself isn't one I need to engage with, regardless of my basic beliefs or agreement with the underlying goals.

  Jay Lake

  Agreement, Goal, Abuse

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• To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

  Hermann Hesse

  Patience, Revenge, People

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• 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

  Determined, Sin, Christ

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 1”, p.184, Lulu.com

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• I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Freedom, Mistress, Being Free

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• 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

  World, Moments, Contradiction

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled underfoot by all and despised, accepting injustice, contempt and mockery; unless he undergoes all these things with joy for the sake of the Lord, not claiming any kind of human reward whatsoever - glory or honor or earthly pleasures - he cannot become a true Christian.

  Mark the Evangelist

  Christian, Humility, Men

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• A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction.

  James A. Baldwin

  Moving, Home, People

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

  Ravi Zacharias

  Marriage, Emotional, Needs

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 19, 2013

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hungry, Satisfied

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.99, Youcanprint

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

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Envy, Tragedy

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

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• While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

  Lewis Carroll

  Respect, Laughter, Exercise

  Lewis Carroll (2008). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.352, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Injury, Saved

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• We live in an age in which only one prejudice is tolerated - anti-Christian bigotry... Today, the only group you can hold up to public mockery is Christians. Attacks on the Church and Christianity are common.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, Age

  D. James Kennedy (2008). “What if Jesus Had Never Been Born?”, p.11, Thomas Nelson

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