78 Quotes About Mockery

Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender heart," he said.

Laugh not at the dead, for the corpse at your feet is prophetic of your own destiny.

It was just like Aleksander to steal even this from him, Gavriel thought. To treat the duel as a joke, to treat him as a joke. Now his only choices were to take aim at a man about to fall over or to bear the shame of crying off. And Aleksander would laugh at him later. I wasn’t so very drunk, he would say. And if I was, so what? If you weren’t such a milksop, then surely you’d have—Gavriel raised his pistol and shot his brother through the heart.

Whatever we do to shame or degrade others, we do to ourselves.

...the human mouth is the gateway to catastrophe.

Until pains are endured, depressions surmounted, mockeries ignored and goliaths conquered, destiny might not be achieved

Mockery ends where understanding begins.

So many people accuse and mistreat others just because of their present state of life, as if life is just a one day journey, and they forget that the story line can change tomorrow!

Presently [Bridey] said: “If I was Rex”—his mind seemed full of such suppositions: “If I was Archbishop of Westminster,” “If I was head of the Great Western Railway,” “If I was an actress,” as though it were a mere trick of fate that he was none of these things, and he might awake any morning to find the matter adjusted—“if I was Rex I should want to live in my constituency.