Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

— Max Hastings

This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a…

— Thomas Ligotti

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a…

— Rowan Atkinson

Now it's of peculiar interest to an Arab country that there is a company and a certain set of bankers who also finance the…

— L. Ron Hubbard

A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought…

— William Carey

What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

— William Shakespeare

I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I…

— Ransom Riggs

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument…

— Adam Smith

“tiempo tiene su peculiar manera de moldear a la gente de forma que ellos mismos ya no se reconocen,”

— Kate Morton

The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from…

— Richard Owen

For a moment he could have sworn he smelled violets, which was very peculiar, since he had no idea what violets smelled like, except…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what…

— A. E. Housman

The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.

— Swami Vivekananda

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,…

— Terry Pratchett