“Ignore the critics… Only mediocrity is safe from ridicule. Dare to be different!” — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If we are not receiving some type of ridicule for our beliefs, we are probably doing something wrong.” — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
“To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule. To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to… — Rene Carayol Copy Share Image
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I wonder why we are always sort of ashamed of our best parts and try to hide them. We don't mind ridicule… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject… — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at -… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
My job is thick with risks, threats, occasional violence and sometimes the necessary folly that sometimes courts humiliation and ridicule. But I… — Ron Galella Copy Share Image
Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule… — Sam Kinison Copy Share Image
When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I won’t ridicule you.” He walked up to the window. “Want a Coke?’ “Cherry slurpe.” He rolled his eyes. “And you make… — Roxanne St. Claire Copy Share Image
We live in a world where people can ridicule you at the push of the button. They can question you at the… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
In the gospel of Jesus Christ, there is no place for ridicule, bullying, or bigotry. — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
“It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule. — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
“Just because you don't agree with someone does not give you the right to ridicule them.” — Thea Nishimori Copy Share Image
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Once you identify yourself as believing something, you open yourself to ridicule. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is — J. Allen Hynek Copy Share Image
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. — Horace Copy Share Image
“Naming, thinks Jacob, even in ridicule, gives what is named substance.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them. — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
