Quotes of Scoff - somelinesforyou

“ The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again. ”

- Charles Kingsley

“ The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Will none wipe the sneer off the face of the cosmos? ”

- Poul Anderson

“ The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff-if it sneer, let it sneer. ”

- Lucy Stone

“ Speak not injurious words, neither in jest or earnest. Scoff at none, although they give occasion. ”

- George Washington

“ The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. ”

- Thomas Edward Brown

“ Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. ”

- Louis L’Amour

“ I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, without the least propensity to jeer. ”

- Lord George Byron

“ Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men. ”

- Edward Carpenter

“ But owned that smile, if oft observed and near,Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer. ”

- Lord Byron

“ It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. ”

- Woodrow Wilson

“ It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. ”

- Woodrow T. Wilson

“ A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar. ”

- Margaret Deland

“ Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. ”

- Dan Rather

“ The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn. ”

- Martin Luther

“ He drew a circle that shut me out — Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in. ”

- Edwin Markham

“ Only little boys and old men sneer at love. ”

- Louis Auchincloss

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

- Unknown

“ The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Who can refute a sneer? ”

- William Paley

“ Who can refute a sneer? ”

- William S. Paley

“ A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. ”

- Louis Nizer
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