Quotes of Taunt - somelinesforyou

“ The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again. ”

- Charles Kingsley

“ The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff, But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off. ”

- Edward Young

“ Will none wipe the sneer off the face of the cosmos? ”

- Poul Anderson

“ Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches! ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,"' the Mock Turtle replied; "and then the different branches of Arithmetic — Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, without the least propensity to jeer. ”

- Lord George Byron

“ A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. ”

- Louis Nizer

“ A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar. ”

- Margaret Deland

“ To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? ”

- Jean de La Fontaine

“ The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn. ”

- Martin Luther

“ The Poet is a kinsman in the cloudsWho scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day;But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,He cannot walk, his wings are in the way. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Where the question is a jest, the fittest answer is a scoff. ”

- Archimedes

“ No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. ”

- Milan Kundera

“ The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff-if it sneer, let it sneer. ”

- Lucy Stone

“ It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. ”

- Woodrow T. Wilson

“ Ridicule is the best test of truth. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

“ Consistency is only suitable for ridicule. ”

- Jean Baptiste Moliere

“ It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. ”

- Woodrow Wilson

“ They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. ”

- Bible

“ But owned that smile, if oft observed and near,Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men. ”

- Edward Carpenter

“ I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule. ”

- David Icke

“ Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer. ”

- Lord Byron

“ I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ He just laughed at me. ”

- Keira Knightley

“ But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. ”

- Bible

“ For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. ”

- Bible
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