Scoff Quotes

#1. As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.

Baruch Spinoza

#2. As is always the way with pancakes, the first hotcake to come out of the pan will probably be a bit misshapen. Just scoff it, and carry on with the rest.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#3. I took half a bottle of wine and entire bar of dark chocolate up to my room and proceeded to self-medicate the hell out of myself. Don't scoff until you've tried it.

Virginia Brown

#4. I drink not from mere joy in wine nor to scoff at faith - no, only to forget myself for a moment, that only do I want of intoxication, that alone. - OMAR KHAYYAM

Ernest Becker

#5. Stubborn, loyal, utterly driven to accomplish your mission." "Basically, you're both crazy heroes." "And everybody thinks you're both hot," says Dee. I scoff. "Now I know you're full of it.

Susan Ee

#6. Think anything like that at her again, and I'll kill you here and now."
Madigan's scoff was uneasy. "Any attack on me -"
"Is the same as an attack on the United States itself," Bones finished, still in that deadly calm manner. "Heard you the first time - and didn't give a shite then, either.

Jeaniene Frost

#7. Songwriting becomes a conscious attempt to delve into the unconscious. Even those writers who scoff at the concept of a spiritual source for their songs admit that the phenomenon of having them simply arrive feels magical.

Paul Zollo

#8. There are lots of things I won't eat but would like to, such as croissants or ice cream - if I started, I'd scoff the whole tub.

Marie Helvin

#9. Money! Ho, ho!
'T'as been my want so long, 'tis now my scoff.
I've e'en forgot what colour silver's of.

Thomas Middleton

#10. A novel is a hearty meal, but poems are the Belgian chocolates of the bookshelf. You can pick one and linger over it. Savour the aroma, the taste, the melting texture, the sweet craving it leaves behind! Or you can scoff down as many as you can eat. It's up to you.

Vicky Arthurs

#11. Speak not injurious words, neither in jest nor earnest. Scoff at none though they give occasion.

George Washington

#12. You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me!
What has your politics fed on
since you've been ruling the world?
On butchery and murder!

Charles De Coster

#13. You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any economist's analysis.

Thomas Sowell

#14. It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.

Israel Shenker

#15. Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth.

Aleister Crowley

#16. You're allowed to have thoughts, she reminded herself. Just because others might scoff, that doesn't mean you won't anymore.

Lauren Myracle

#17. If you will scoff at language study how, save in terms of language, will you scoff?

Mario Pei

#18. Eh, I'll be inside," Vlad said with another soft scoff. "For some reason, I feel the urge to watch Hitman followed by Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Jeaniene Frost

#19. Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.

Edd Roush

#20. Scoff if you wish, but there is something morally dangerous in this endless variety of amusements that our era claims to provide. Soon there will be no word for "contentment" in the English language, for we shall no longer feel content and thus have no need to describe it.

Kim Wright

#21. All right, don't scoff, mock or disbelieve: we live in mortal fear of not-quite-twins.

Kamila Shamsie

#22. Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?

Thomas Hooker

#23. To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

#24. There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and
shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you
know ain't so'.

Mark Twain

#25. We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each other ... Oh, we are a nasty little lot-& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won't happen if I have any influence.

Mark Twain

#26. I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'

R.L. Stine

#27. A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground.

Thomas Aquinas

#28. I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box.

Tom Mison

#29. At night I dream of things I scoff at by day.

Jaclyn Dolamore

#30. When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of their mother and cut out the eyes.

W. J. T. Mitchell

#31. Please", I scoff. "Dot-com jokes are so two visions ago. Stay on your toes, Angotti, or you're off the team.

Lisa McMann

#32. What if I told you I could get you to fall in love with me scientifically?"
"I would scoff," I say. "A Lot

Nicola Yoon

#33. Let's go. We have to confront her."
I scoff. "Confront her? That's a little mild, don't you think? I'm going to rip her tits off.

Sara Wolf

#34. Don't listen when they scoff
That you are too old and I am young,
For I am old enough to know better
And you are young enough not to care.

Armistead Maupin

#35. Go ahead, scoff, he said, petulant. Except in the life of a hero, the whole world's meaningless. The hero sees values beyond what's possible. That's the nature of a hero. It kills him, of course, ultimately. But it makes the whole struggle of humanity worthwhile.

John Gardner

#36. Time was to sin and to enjoy, time was to scoff at God and at the warnings of His holy church, time was to defy His majesty, to disobey His commands, to hoodwink one's fellow men, to commit sin after sin and to hide one's corruption from the sight of men.

James Joyce

#37. It's always disappointing to come across phony do-gooders. And it's easy to scoff at celebrities working in war zones.

Janine Di Giovanni

#38. Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

William Ernest Henley

#39. Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

Oliver Goldsmith

#40. First, be aware of this: scoffers will come in the last days to scoff, following their own lusts. 2 Peter 3:3

Beth Moore

#41. It's easy, once the lamps are lit, to scoff at shadows.

Adrian Tchaikovsky

#42. The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

Thomas Browne

#43. I scoff. I'd kill for her metabolism. I can just smell food and my ass inflates. We

S.M. Shade

#44. We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#45. Take away truth and people will lie. Scoff at virtue, and betrayal becomes a matter of course.

Frank E. Peretti

#46. I surmise that later generations will likely scoff at the means by which we are currently addressing pain as well.

Melissa Cady

#47. You can scoff at opinions. You can reject hypotheses. You can discard theories out of hand. But you cannot reject the facts

Forrest Carr

#48. Let me tell you, people go on and on about what a great idea electricity was, but I'm going to put toilet paper right next to the wheel and say those are the best ideas anyone's ever had. Scoff at it if you will, but try living for two millennia without it and then we'll talk.

Kevin Hearne

#49. I authorize an air strike that reduces my street to rubble; I fold Swansea Bay like an enormous omelette and scoff it all

Joe Dunthorne

#50. The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.

Lucy Stone

#51. Your stamina is impressive," he commented. There was a beat of silence and Sin said with a scoff, "I could say something, but I'll refrain.

Santino Hassell

#52. The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks. How nonphysicists would scoff if they were able to follow the odd course of developments!

Albert Einstein

#53. We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

Jean De La Fontaine

#54. He has guided my hands in ways I don't always understand, ways that people of this world would scoff at. But there is a purpose for all that I have ever made, even if I don't understand for certain what that purpose is.

Patrick Carman

#55. Shit is another useful word. Also very common. For example, pleasantly surprised? You say 'No shit?' You think someone tells you tales, you scoff 'You're shitting me.' You find something you like very much, you exclaim 'That's good shit!

Jane Yolen

#56. It is easy to scoff at "native superstition" from the back of an elephant with a powerful rifle in your hand.

Patrick Newman

#57. I know that people who don't believe in God might scoff at the idea that the creator of the universe has the time or inclination to try incessantly (and with not much long-term success) to change my heart. I get it. I just have no other explanation.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#58. The London 'Academy' has seen fit recently to scoff at the critics who have been exercising themselves ove rthe so-called art of the Short Story ... But the new Short Story has gained more individuality. It supports the magazines and has invaded the newspapers

Henry Seidel Canby

#59. It may not be your dream, Stepsister, but do not scoff at those who do dream of it.

Malinda Lo

#60. Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of archaeological discoveries have affirmed the historical reliability of the Bible.

Charlie Campbell

#61. Sabine gave a Scoff. " I could be virtuous, if I wanted to be."
In an incredulous tone, he said, "You don't know the meaning of virtue!"
"Of course I do - it means your thong must be white.

Kresley Cole

#62. You do realize this means you're leaving Birch and Scoff in charge of the Catacombs.... And you aren't worried that half of the caverns will be blown apart while we're gone? Or that we'll return to find the children have purple skin and hair that looks and smells like berries? - Charlotte

Andrea Cremer

#63. think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of the present thought so many important things were superstitions.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#64. He did not blame them. Because in truth, that's what he did, what he was. Seduce and dominate. Charm and manipulate. A user of women. How they would scoff, Rothbury mused bitterly, if they knew that he was secretly in love with the silly little chit, spectacles and all.

Olivia Parker

#65. First you say I am a murderer - an agent in league against you - and now I am a deluded heartsick girl! Pray make up your mind so I can scoff at you with precision!

Gordon Dahlquist

#66. To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

Louis L'Amour

#67. And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

Oliver Goldsmith

#68. Do not go where you don't belong. I scoffed. That sounded like an invitation if I ever heard one.

Dinah Katt