Mockery

Famous quotes containing the word mockery:

    O that I were a mockery king of snow,
    Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke,
    To melt myself away in water drops!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    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 (1865–1939)

    It seemed the mockery of hell to fold
    The rottenness of eighty years in gold.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)