Mock

Famous quotes containing the word mock:

    “Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau!
    Mock on, mock on—’Tis all in vain!”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “Sometimes we see a cloud that’s dragonish,
    A vapor sometimes like a bear or lion,
    A towered citadel, a pendant rock,
    A forked mountain, or blue promontory
    With trees upon ‘t that nod unto the world
    And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs;
    They are black vesper’s pageants.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “For ever will I sleep, while poor maids cry,
    Alas, for pity stay,
    And let us die
    With thee, men cannot mock us in the clay.”
    —Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)