Ridicule Quotes · Page 7

I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat.

— Moby

Donald Trump's tweets attract ridicule from some. But clearly they communicate effectively with his millions of supporters.

— Gavin Esler

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

— Horace

Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.

— Alberto Juantorena

People will laugh at your dreams then hate you when you make then come true.

— Anonymous

I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt, and I claim that right.

— Christopher Hitchens

The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for…

— Steven Pressfield

Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with…

— Judith Stone

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has…

— Saint Francis de Sales

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free…

— Abraham Lincoln

My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside,…

— Tom Cruise

You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule,…

— Richard H. Davis

Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of fame. Followed by fifteen minutes of legal problems, fifteen minutes of ridicule from…

— Dan Piraro

The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to…

— Jules Henry

Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety.…

— William Morley Punshon

Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the…

— Lord Chesterfield

If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a…

— Thomas Huxley

The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing…

— Walt Whitman

L'homme est ne pour la socie te ; se parez-le, isolez-le, ses ide es se de suniront, son caracte' re se tournera,…

— Denis Diderot

If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things…

— Lauryn Hill

I've often been asked what drives me, particularly through the last 50 years of abuse, and ridicule. What has kept me going…

— Allan Savory

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

— Mark Twain

We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I'm always eager to respond to human curiosity, but I have no time to entertain ape gossip.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

Calling out someone's sexuality to ridicule them is not funny nor a way to win an argument.

— Anonymous

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

— Oliver Goldsmith

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

— Boyd K. Packer

The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.

— Albert Einstein

It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“...when you hold people up for ridicule, you have the responsibility when other people act on it" -Hannah”

— Jay Asher

Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.

— Matthew Specktor

An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.

— Marva Collins

The popular culture still ridicules religion and often treats it like the plague.

— Gary Bauer

“The integration of mothers and babies into public life was viewed with ridicule and alarm in many societies.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“when you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it. Later”

— Jay Asher

“Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson