Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision. — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
America under Trump has gone from being a world leader to an object of derision. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
A schmuck is a general term of disrespect. It's a term of contempt and derision. It applies to a lot of people. — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
Whenever the party-girl tag gets attached to my name, it makes me want to snort with derision. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below.” — Gordon R. Dickson Copy Share Image
That's what the Nazis did, isn't it? Treated those "others" they thought subhuman by making them lab subjects and so on. Even… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more… — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
The derision comes from snobbery, which I think is the worst thing for art and music. I don't think there's any place… — Theo Hutchcraft Copy Share Image
Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
When people get to speak about themselves and the things that matter to them, on their own terms, we see them as… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, 'Why pick on my eyes?… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
What is satire if not a marriage of civil disobedience to a laugh track, a potent brew of derision and lack of… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
“It is [Simon] Wessely’s often-unconcealed “derision” directed towards people with ME -- a disease from which people die and which appears on… — Michael Hanlon Copy Share Image
Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
Most of us agree that the United Nations is the vanguard of a foreign invasion and must be driven from our shores.… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a… — James Randi Copy Share Image
Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained.… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
“Taylor didn’t know how the woman stood being the center of so much derision.” — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“therefore the idea of the service of humanity, of brotherly love and the solidarity of mankind, is more and more dying out… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Lilac makes on occasion a sound between a sniff and a snort that's as damning as all improper words in the language… — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
In fact, I can confidently say that 'South Park's' penchant for unbridled derision has been directly responsible for my own joy in… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we grew up and went to school There were certain teachers who would Hurt the children any way they could By… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
The Christian principles on which the country was primarily founded are rarely consulted other than for formalities of state, derision, or for… — H. Wayne House Copy Share Image