“ The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 1.3K
“ He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff, But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches! ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,"' the Mock Turtle replied; "and then the different branches of Arithmetic — Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. ”
- Lewis Carroll- Copy
- 2.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.8K
“ A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar. ”
- Margaret Deland- Copy
- 2.9K
“ We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? ”
- Jean de La Fontaine- Copy
- 440
“ 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- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The Poet is a kinsman in the cloudsWho scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day;But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,He cannot walk, his wings are in the way. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
- 302
“ 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- Copy
- 3.4K
“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 895
“ It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. ”
- Woodrow Wilson- Copy
- 1.8K
“ But owned that smile, if oft observed and near,Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men. ”
- Edward Carpenter- Copy
- 221
“ I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule. ”
- David Icke- Copy
- 973
“ 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- Copy
- 3.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 444
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