When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat. — Moby 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
“Naming, thinks Jacob, even in ridicule, gives what is named substance.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place. — Walter Savage Landor 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
I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have to admit that I was terrified of ending the book, precisely because I go around saying about pretty much every… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems -… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The media these days are not so much interested in saying things truthfully without distortion, without misrepresentation, without ridicule. — Gina Rinehart Copy Share Image
Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult...… — Don Feder 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
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 Copy Share Image
The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing… — Walt Whitman 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“wanted to ridicule him for using chatspeak IRL, but I found myself lacking the energy.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nobody will be there for you in the making, but everybody will be there in the taking.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“All the world's a rube, and he who tries to prove otherwise will be the first to wake onstage, victim of our… — Jedediah Berry Copy Share Image
Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him. — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination. — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
“Always laugh when mediocre minds makes fun of you, for in your grieve, the ridicule is having an effect” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America? — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America? — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Never laugh at someone's fall when you are yet to reach the end of your walk. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image