mock quotes

Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait, Tho'fanned by Conquest's crimson wing They mock the air with idle state.

-Thomas Gray
  The Bard.  A Pindaric Ode, l.1^4.

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock. Palmerston

- Grace ne  e  Goodside Paley
  Begin Again: New and Collected Poems,'Stanzas: Old Age and the Conventions of Retirement Have Driven My Friends from theWorkThey Love'.

I'd like to see aTank come down the stalls, Lurching to rag-time tunes, or 'Home sweet Home', And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.

- Siegfried Louvain Sassoon
  'Blighters'.