Mock

Famous quotes containing the word mock:

“From a bed in this hotel Seargent S. Prentiss arose in the middle of the night and made a speech in defense of a bedbug that had bitten him. It was heard by a mock jury and judge, and the bedbug was formally acquitted.”
—Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

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

“Away, and mock the time with fairest show;
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)