Quotes of Mockery - somelinesforyou

“ The British, he thought, must be gluttons for satire: even the weather forecast seemed to be some kind of spoof, predicting every possible combination of weather for the next twenty-four hours without actually committing itself to anything specific. ”

- David Lodge

“ You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature. ”

- Bernard Berenson

“ A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. ”

- Rufus Choate

“ Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument. ”

- Rufus Choate

“ Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. ”

- Karl Marx

“ I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator. ”

- Steven Wright

“ A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. ”

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“ Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? ”

- Frida Kahlo

“ Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

“ A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ Every woman is just a different kind of problem. ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“ Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth. ”

- E. L. Doctorow

“ These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way. ”

- Marilyn Manson

“ Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid. ”

- George Eliot

“ You can parody almost anything. ”

- Bruce McCall

“ Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ There's a fine line between participation and mockery. ”

- Scott Adams

“ 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

“ Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. ”

- Milan Kundera

“ 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

“ The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery. ”

- Norman Douglas

“ Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Between now and the time I'm sworn in January 2005, I'm going to use every day to make this president accountable for making a mockery of the words 'No Child Left Behind.'. ”

- John F. Kerry

“ Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process. ”

- Nancy Pelosi

“ I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

“ The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us… ”

- Frederick Buechner
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