I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

- Ana Gasteyer

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

- George Santayana

There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.

- John Burroughs

You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'

- Marianne Williamson

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.

- Marilyn Manson

Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

- Nancy Pelosi

'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.

- Richard Eyre

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

- Rich Lowry

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

- Sophocles