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)

“Oh! mock not the poniarded heart. The stabbed man knows the steel; prate not to him that it is only a ticking feather.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that—the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.”
—Emmuska, Baroness Orczy (1865–1947)