In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I… — Arthur Bremer Copy Share Image
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion. — William Safire Copy Share Image
“What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world's ridicule as well as their own… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption,… — Tom Regan Copy Share Image
Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
I have been the subject of ridicule. People talk about me and they don't know me and this is an opportunity to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Very few women have become famous for being who they actually are, nuanced and imperfect. When honesty happens, it's usually couched in… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“With bitterness, then. But that I have forbidden myself. With ridicule, then, which is more affable, which keeps itself transparent and could… — Wilma Stockenström Copy Share Image
Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
There is going to come a day when everyone here is going to need keen observation and wit to ridicule George W.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I grew up with such mixed feelings about LA, but I do love it. I grew up lectured by Woody Allen, for… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There was a time when one looked over one's shoulder with an ironical smile at the photographer and when photography as a… — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We must be able to deal with ridicule and scorn, which it always seems that Buddhists receive. But we feel that it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When there are legitimate concerns and frustrations it is never cool to marginalise and ridicule the people who have those concerns. — James Cleverly Copy Share Image
I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
Take, for example, there is a right-wing populist uprising. It's very common, even on the left, to just ridicule them, but that's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for… — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
Whatever, bro. We both had a long day. Too much drama. I'll TTYS." I wanted to ridicule him for using chatspeak IRL,… — John Green Copy Share Image
All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
GPS works great. I recommend it for all cat owners who want to know what their cats do when they're not there,… — Caroline Paul Copy Share Image
He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
What does annoy me is when critics use me to ridicule my audience. All the stuff about 'Tesco housewives' and 'the blue-rinse… — Michael Ball Copy Share Image
A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
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