Lewis Carroll

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

English Author

Linus Roache

Dad has always been - and still is - a great influence on me. He has always stood up for spirit, staying true to his beliefs... and I like to do the same with regard to my own true beliefs, regardless of potential criticism or mockery.

English Actor

Rachel Kushner

I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

American Writer

Michel Gondry

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.

Michael Dapaah

I'm very observational in my comedy and what I create with the characters that I'm blessed to play. I don't believe comedy needs to be offensive, and I don't believe it needs to be a mockery of anything.

Paul Craig Roberts

Vice is Washington's signature. A fish rots from the head, and Washington has led our country into vice, greed, selfishness, and the mockery and destruction of human life.

American Economist

George Santayana

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.

Spanish Philosopher

Ana Gasteyer

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

American Comedian

Josh Hawley

The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.

American Politician

Sophocles

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

Greek Poet

Mockery often implies scorn and expresses disapproval, which can be hurtful.

Negative Connotation

Using 'mockery' in formal discussions may be inappropriate due to its negative tone.

Avoid in Formality

'Mockery' is usually directed at a person or group and can feel personal.

Often Personal

Understanding local culture helps grasp the nuances when 'mockery' references cultural themes.

Cultural References

Mockery is about deliberate exaggeration to ridicule, different from harmless teasing.

Intention Matters

Mockery can turn a serious situation into something absurd or not worthy of respect.

Seriousness Undermined

Mockery can be shown through actions, not just through what is said.

Not Just Words

 and drudgery and misery around the world. I'm very confident we're going to learn to live more lightly on the planet, and I am extremely confident that what we're going to do with our new digital tools is going to be so profound and so beneficial that it's going to make a mockery out of everything that came before.

Andrew McAfee: Are...

 and drudgery and misery around the world I'm very confident we're going to learn to live more lightly on the planet and I am extremely confident that what we're going to do with our new digital tools it's going to be so profound and so beneficial that it's gonna make a mockery out of everything that came

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 They cut out his tongue in mockery of his oratory, and no one knows what they did with his body. So this is the discovery of a lost voice from antiquity, speaking to us, not from the grave, because his grave doesn't exist, but from the Athenian law courts. Now I should say at this point

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 problem but the question is what do we do I feel like we need to use their weaknesses against them right and we I feel like it's very powerful to have an undercurrent of mockery in our approach so with that I developed a few rules of thumb one never call them by their real

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 This may have influenced the panoramic vision of his work, and in the Tales, no level of society is above mockery. Chaucer uses the quirks of the characters’ language – the ribald humor of the Cook, the solemn prose of the Parson, and the lofty notions of the Squire –

Everything you need to...

 and self-important intellectuals, exactly the people who sat in the front row of the theatre, where everyone could see their reactions. As a result, they were referred to as "those made fun of in comedy." Aristophanes’ vicious and often obscene mockery

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 to hire an astrologer to warn them when they're gonna have bad days ahead there's been mockery made of her as a result of that decision and the control that she sort of seized in the the abject and determined protection of her

The Reagans: A Love...

 This mechanism that for generations has helped inform and guide us no longer functions the way it used to. You know intimately what the poisoned national discourse feels like, what a mockery of reasoned debate it has become.

When local news dies, so...

 with the anxiety and the fear and the risk and retaliation. If you ask women what they fear the most in response to their anger, they don't say violence. They say mockery. Think about what that means.

The power of women's...

 because there are no headphones for three-year-olds in US courtrooms, because they are not supposed to defend themselves. This makes a mockery of justice, it makes a mockery of the prosecution system,