Self Mockery Quotes

#1. SELF-MOCKERY IS AN UGLIER THING THAN ANY HUMAN FACE, IRIS ... YOU ARE SMART AND YOU ARE KIND. DON'T BETRAY THOSE IMPULSES IN YOURSELF. DON'T BELABOR THE LACK OF PHYSICAL BEAUTY, WHICH IN ANY CASE EVENTUALLY FLEES THOSE WHO HAVE IT AND MAKES THEM SAD.

Gregory Maguire

#2. He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history
the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.

Don DeLillo

#3. Love, he thought. That too is love. The old miracle. It not only casts a rainbow of dreams against the gray sky of facts - it also sheds romantic light upon a heap of dung - a miracle and a mad mockery. Suddenly he had the strange feeling of having become, in a remote way, an accomplice.

Erich Maria Remarque

#4. The whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

Bertrand Russell

#5. Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.

Jim Morrison

#6. My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.

Michelle M. Pillow

#7. No matter how soft you try to grow it, if the soil is full of stones it won't flourish. It would rather grow in ugly patches, here and there, making a mockery of your gardening effort. Better remove the stones first; the spring is not going to last long. Next would be next year; who lives till then?

Ashfaq Saraf

#8. The mockery of it! he said gaily

James Joyce

#9. When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

Woody Allen

#10. There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route and sell travel writing through making people laugh. It's a very difficult group to take. The line between comedy and mockery is sometimes a bit thin.

John Gimlette

#11. Later, when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die.

James S.A. Corey

#12. She did not look anything like a horned horse, as unicorns are often pictured, being smaller and cloven-hoofed, and possessing that oldest, wildest grace that horses have never had, that deer have only in a shy, thin imitation and goats in dancing mockery.

Peter S. Beagle

#13. Death will not be denied. To try is grandiose. It drives madness into the soul. It leaches out virtue. It injects poison into friendship, and makes a mockery of love.

Helen Garner

#14. Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.

Bubba Sparxxx

#15. A pity, ' he said, without a trace of mockery. 'It seems that those who possess the greatest beauty appreciate it the least.

Jeanne Kalogridis

#16. Victory without God is mockery and delusion, but ... defeat with God is not defeat.

William Faulkner

#17. It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.

Lady Gaga

#18. I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with shame and derision and with a healthy dose of mockery, that's how we will very likely look back on this sort of anti-Muslim sentiment as well in the next generation.

Reza Aslan

#19. Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.

Khalil Gibran

#20. Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

John F. Kennedy

#21. Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

Veronica Roth

#22. [It's] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97

Marcel Benabou

#23. Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.

David Seabury

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

T.F. Hodge

#25. It is a visual temper tantrum. You are making an ineffective statement about this and that, a grotesque, self-defeating mockery of cultural standards of beauty, societal misogyny. It is a blow to your parents, at whom you are pissed.

Marya Hornbacher

#26. Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

Honore De Balzac

#27. As he thought about his life, he felt both tears and mockery welling up inside him. All that lay before him was madness or suicide. He walked down the darkening street alone, determined now to wait for the destiny that would come to annihilate him.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#28. We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

Abraham Lincoln

#29. The common misery of destitution would have made a bitter mockery of a marked insistence on social differences. Gaspar

Joseph Conrad

#30. 'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.

Richard Eyre

#31. Though I understand the theology behind it, the image does not bring me peace; it makes me feel sorry for the lion. It strips him of his essence, the fundamental part of his being. A lion that does not behave as a lion i snot a lion. It isn't even the lion's opposite. It's a mockery of a lion.

Rick Yancey

#32. I strenuously object to the very word "grotesque" which has become hackneyed to the point of nausea ... I would prefer my music to be described as "Scherzo-ish" in quality, or else by three words describing the various degrees of the Scherzo - whimsicality, laughter, mockery.

Sergei Prokofiev

#33. I vote, I participate, I am present, I am concerned - mirror of a paradoxical mockery, mirror of the indifference of all public signification.

Jean Baudrillard

#34. Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.

Hart Crane

#35. Happiness is the cure - a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both. No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

Charlotte Bronte

#36. If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.

Jane Goodall

#37. The Turkish quarter oozed, impregnated with malicious mockery, a viral scorn.

Joseph D. Stec

#38. Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things,

Celeste Ng

#39. And I am a mockery, who was God before.

Jan Struther

#40. Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.

Betty Friedan

#41. Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business. And what that sends to my generation is, one day, you can just wake up and run for Senate, no matter how [much] lack of experience you have.

Meghan McCain

#42. Or else I'd try to force myself to fall in love; in fact, I did it twice. And I suffered, gentlemen, I assure you I did. Deep down in your heart you don't believe in your suffering, there is a stirring of mockery, and yet you suffer - in the most genuine, honest-to-goodness way.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#43. Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery ...

Martin Luther

#44. Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.

Ravi Zacharias

#45. Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery.

Terry Jones

#46. In mockery I have set
A powerful emblem up,
And sing it rhyme upon rhyme
In mockery of a time
Half dead at the top.

William Butler Yeats

#47. Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.

Helen Keller

#48. I have never seen a more desperate symbol of hope since the world ended and I've never felt the world more desperate to make a mockery of it.

Courtney Summers