#mockery

You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#contempt #mockery #perfection #ridicule #beauty

Let them see that their words can cut you, and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#inspirational #mockery #inspirational

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#characteristics #i #like #mockery #opposed

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#culture #manson #marilyn #marilyn manson #mockery

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#freedom #her #mockery #over #slaves

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

#contradiction #every #itself #mockery #moment

I had never yet done such a thing in life, but now I felt a desire to mock. ("In The Court Of The Dragon") ↗

— Robert W. Chambers

#mockery #mocking #life

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

#claim #deeds #guides #love #makes

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid." "Any will do," the rabbi replied in Provençal. "Splendid. Latin it is," said Pope Clement. ↗

— Iain Pears

#communication #conceit #languages #mockery #papal-authority

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

— William Shakespeare

#jealousy #mockery #monsters #vices #jealousy