#mockery

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. ↗

— William Godwin

#desire #mockery #real #semblance #study

I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#cynical #humour #i #irony #makes

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

#bury #carcass #friends #friendship #gone

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

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#appetites #bill #comedians #control #fun

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

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

#any #been #cannot #dogma #dream

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

#countries #destruction #development #engaged #hussein

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

#change #change the world #designed #great #laughed