Ridicule Quotes · Page 5

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

In the gospel of Jesus Christ, there is no place for ridicule, bullying, or bigotry.

— Neil L. Andersen

You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.

— Michael McKean

“Naming, thinks Jacob, even in ridicule, gives what is named substance.”

— David Mitchell

No matter how valuable, advice on how to succeed, coming from an unsuccessful man, will be received with poor grace or even…

— James Nathan Miller

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.

— Walter Savage Landor

Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is

— J. Allen Hynek

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

— Ann Radcliffe

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

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

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

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

It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack,…

— Criss Jami

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

— Leslie Feinberg

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

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

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

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go…

— Saul Alinsky

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

For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good…

— Virginia Woolf

I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem

— Anonymous

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

— Anonymous

“Mock and ridicule men who refuse to use reason and logic; use reason and logic against men who know only how to…

— Criss Jami

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

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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

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

— Horace

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

— Gavin Esler

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

— Moby

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

— Madame de Stael

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

— Abhijit Naskar

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with…

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Boyd K. Packer