Ridicule Quotes · Page 5

A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.

— D. H. Lawrence

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

— Patricia Moyes

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

— Thomas Jefferson

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

— Daniel Okrent

Laugh at your problems... everyone else does.

— Anonymous

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

— Blaise Pascal

Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart.

— Garth Brooks

To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]

— Blaise Pascal

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

— Ralph Fiennes

I hope there are some who will brave ridicule for the sake of common justice to half the people in the world.

— Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon

Baby boomer media like 'The Times' is a laughingstock, and we should do whatever we can to ridicule it.

— Gavin McInnes

Telling the truth and challenging the establishment will only lead to ridicule, crucifixion, and death.

— Rev Richard Skaff

“It is time we become an aid to each other's light, not an impediment.”

— Abhijit Naskar

If you know you're wrong,admit it,But if you know you're right,just shut up.You don't need to prove yourself to idiots.

— Abhishek Tiwari

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of…

— Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

Come let us mock at the good That fancied goodness might be gay, And sick of solitude Might proclaim a holiday: Wind…

— William Butler Yeats

The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the…

— Ann Radcliffe

Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule…

— Joseph R. Bartlett

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring…

— Molly Ivins

Europeans ridicule Muslim culture because they don't understand the wisdom behind it. Take swine flu for instance: all the sudden you've got…

— Riaad Moosa

People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.

— Leslie Feinberg

We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find…

— John Keats

You mock those who blindly follow the majority...turn your attention now to those who are so dedicated to deviating from the norm…

— Demetri Martin

Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of…

— Michael Moore

There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a…

— Mark Twain

It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for…

— Paulo Freire

I hope [white brothers and sisters] read this book [Tears we cannot stop] and engage with it, but other white people have…

— Michael Eric Dyson

But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or…

— Truman Capote

In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary…

— Joanne Harris

A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be;…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Ridicule is a public confession of fear.

— Vanna Bonta

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

— Moliere

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Ridicule is the Burden of Genius.

— Daffy Duck

If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!

— Arlene Francis

Silence can be the worst ridicule.

— Helen Nielsen

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

— Tony Blair

“He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana