Mock

Famous quotes containing the word mock:

    “And how many hours a day did you do lessons?” said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
    “Ten hours the first day,” said the Mock Turtle: “nine the next, and so on.”
    “What a curious plan!” exclaimed Alice.
    “That’s the reason they’re called lessons,” the Gryphon remarked: “because they lessen from day to day.”
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    Come let us mock at the good
    That fancied goodness might be gay,
    And sick of solitude
    Might proclaim a holiday:
    Wind shrieked and where are they?
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

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