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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

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

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

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question...so break 'yo'self'!


T.F. Hodge


#apology-and-attitude #ego #forgiveness #humility #mockery

Here comes Mamma Vauquerr, fair as a starrr; and strung up like a bunch of carrots. Aren't we suffocating ourselves a wee bit?' he asked, placing a hand on the top of her corset. 'A bit of a crush in the vestibule, here, Mamma! If we start crying, there'll be an explosion. Never mind, I'll be there to collect the bits--just like an antiquary.' 'Now, there's the language of true French gallantry,' murmured Madame Vauquer in an aside to Madame Couture.


Honoré de Balzac


#comedy #good-natured #humor #mockery #obliviousness

Please do not think that I am accusing socialists of insincerity or that I wish to hold them up to scorn either as bad democrats or as unprincipled schemers and opportunists. I fully believe, in spite of the childish Machiavellism in which some of their prophets indulge, that fundamentally most of them always have been as sincere in their professions as any other men. Besides, I do not believe in insincerity in social strife, for people always come to think what they want to think and what they incessantly profess. As regards democracy, socialist parties are presumably no more opportunists than are any others; they simply espouse democracy if, as, and when it serves their ideals and interests and not otherwise. Lest readers should be shocked and think so immoral a view worthy only of the most callous of political practitioners, ...


Joseph A. Schumpeter


#mockery #politics #sarcasm #men

Maxim 8: Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it's on the far side of the airlock. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries


Howard Tayler


#humour #mockery #rules-to-live-by #sci-fi #sci-fi

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?


Sophocles


#mockery #our #sweetest

Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.


Christopher Paolini


#brisingr #humor #mockery #attitude