Famous quotes containing the word mock:
“Away, and mock the time with fairest show;
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“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)
“And how many hours a day did you do lessons? said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
Ten hours the first day, said the Mock Turtle: nine the next, and so on.
What a curious plan! exclaimed Alice.
Thats the reason theyre called lessons, the Gryphon remarked: because they lessen from day to day.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)