Quotes with mockery

  • Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.

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  • Bobby Jindal 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
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • John Henry Newman 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
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Betty Friedan 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
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Mockery is the fume of little hearts.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Milan Kundera 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
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • John Ruskin Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Norman Douglas The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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