Best Scoffing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Though people are laughing at the dirt surrounding you, they are missing to see the seeds also planted, growing silently within.”

People Faith Laughing Growing Perception Silent Judgmental Scoffing Going Forward Belittling Making Fun Of Seeds Of Change Sneering Unacknowledged Hidden Within Hunble

Author:Anthony Liccione

“They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.”

Thinking Needs Two Three Speak Silence Weak Hatred Abuse Slave Dare Fallen Shrinks Scoffing

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.”

Said Argument Lamps Scoffing

Author:Plutarch

“None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.”

Occasions Swear Accustomed Profanity Trifling Scoffing

Book:The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions. Together with the Rule of Faith

Source: The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions. Together with the Rule of Faith

“The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.”

Men Art Artist Religious Highest Art Is Raphael Scoffing Michael Angelo

Book:On beauty: three discourses delivered in the University of Edinburgh

Source: On beauty: three discourses delivered in the University of Edinburgh

“Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.”

Heart Cold Blow Shore Inward Wrecks And Off Coquetry Coquette Scoffing

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.”

Ifs Long Shows America Interest Poet Standing Tradition Interest In Politics Scoffing

Book:Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life

Source: Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life

“Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.”

Scoffing

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author and Illustrative Notes

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author and Illustrative Notes

“There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.”

Men Mind Heart Has Beens Hard Spirit Grows Causes Emotion Laughter Treats Pot Dishonesty Thorns Vacant Fruition Distressing Allegations Scoffing

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“It turns out that conservationism can be fun, with the news that the Norwegian red king crab - which weighs in at an impressive full kilo of juicy crabby goodness per shell - must be eaten as much as possible, because it's scoffing all the other fish in Norway. In fact, it would be remiss of all of us if we didn't eat as many of these buggers as we possible can every week because they now provide a genuine ecological threat to fellow marine life. So, c'mon vegetarians. Let's see how much you really care about the environment.”

“These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.”

People Country Dresses Population Comic Comic Con Scoffing

Author:William Shatner

“Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.”

Sometimes Hard Evil Difficult Goodness Complicated Scoffing

Author:Margaret Atwood

“On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?”

Done Jobs Type Research Bells Reporters Telephones Market Research Macintosh Scoffing Graham Bell

Book:Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

“They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.”

Character Speak Fear Weak Slave Fallen Scoffing

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Bearing sham and scoffing rude, in my place condemned He stood - Sealed my pardon with His blood: Hallelujah, what a Savior!”

Blood Savior Rude Friday Pardon Hallelujah Good Friday Scoffing

Author:Philip Bliss

“Your holiest pain comes from your yearning to change yourself in the exact way you'd like the world around you to change.... Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics.”

World Way Pain Sweet Balance Believer Spots Yearning Skeptic True Believer Change Yourself Scoffing

Book:Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings

Source: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings

“Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?”

Research Bells Telephones Market Research Scoffing Graham Bell

Book:Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

“I train for about an hour five days a week and feel I'm in the best shape I've ever been. I can eat what I want and that includes scoffing half a big bar of Cadbury's a day.”

Want Feels I Can Bigs Hours Half Five Week Shapes Train Bars Scoffing Cadbury

Author:Peter Andre

“Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics.”

Change Sweet Believer Spots Skeptic True Believer Scoffing

Book:Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings

Source: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings