“Love is a jeering mime.” LoveLove IsMimeJeering Book:The Dreamer, and Other Poems Source: The Dreamer, and Other Poems
“To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, jeering insolence of a porter, cabman, or hack-driver.” SelfFeelingsCertainCommandDriversTemperamentHacksCoarseInsolenceDeep FeelingJeering Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)
“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.” IfsWayBearsDevilScriptureBest WayYieldScornScrewtape LettersJeering Author:Martin Luther
“I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.” PeopleMadeEarthHateI HateJournalistEmptinessRefusalRidgesJeering Book:The Letters of W.B. Yeats Source: The Letters of W.B. Yeats
“Harry felt winded, as though he had just walked into something heavy. He had last seen those cool gray eyes through slits in a Death Eater’s hood, and last heard that man’s voice jeering in a dark graveyard while Lord Voldemort tortured him. He could not believe that Lucius Malfoy dared look him in the face; he could not believe that he was here, in the Ministry of Magic, or that Cornelius Fudge was talking to him, when Harry had told Fudge mere weeks ago that Malfoy was a Death Eater.” MenBelieveLooksEyeLastsFacesFeltVoiceDarkTalkingLordMagicHeardWeekMereHeavyGrayMinistryHoodGraveyardSlitsFudgeMalfoyTalking To HimLord VoldemortDeath EatersGray EyesJeering Author:J. K. Rowling
“Well, let's take what people think is a dignified death. Christ - was that a dignified death? Do you think it's dignified to hang from wood with nails through your hands and feet bleeding, hang for three or four days slowly dying, with people jabbing spears into your side, and people jeering you? Do you think that's dignified? Not by a long shot. Had Christ died in my van with people around Him who loved Him, the way it was, it would be far more dignified. In my rusty van.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsLongHandsWould BeThreeSidesChristFourFeetDyingShotsDiedWoodsNailsVansBleedingYour SideSpearsHands And FeetLong ShotsJeering Author:Jack Kevorkian
“Every time a bank swoops down to snatch up a home, it should be met with a crowd of jeering, obstructive neighbors. And although this may be point 4.5, how about organizing a mass refusal to pay back student loans?” ShouldMayHomePayStudentsMetsMassCrowdsNeighborLoanRefusalStudent LoanJeering Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.” WorldJudgmentPotKettlesJeering Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.” LooksLordLaughingStrangeAbsurdEnglishmenJeering Author:Samuel Pepys