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derision

«Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives»
«No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.»
«Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: derision
«We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: About us, derision, Neighbours
«The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: declined, derision
«Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: About us, derision, Neighbours
«The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice: the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit; it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation»
«Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Power | Keywords: derision, divinity, footsteps

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