At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“He saw with sudden awful clarity that if he turned tail now and if, by some appalling miracle, she should survive, he'd… — Helen Hodgman Copy Share Image
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people aren't going to agree, but I think… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them;… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far. — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I recall an incident involving the late George Stigler at a conference in Spain in the 1980s. Hearing that I had written… — Frank Van Dun 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
The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
All I got from van Looy and his cronies was ridicule, not one piece of help or advice. They were very unfair,… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
In the gospel of Jesus Christ, there is no place for ridicule, bullying, or bigotry. — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
No doubt that anarchist ideas are frightening to those in power. People in power can tolerate liberal ideas. They can tolerate ideas… — Howard Zinn 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
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 Copy Share Image
The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“[ Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a group that… — Eddie Trunk Copy Share Image
