Ridicule Quotes

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

— Lord Chesterfield

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

— Ambrose Bierce

“The fear of being ridiculed is gruesome than death.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.

— David R. Mains

“a little modesty stays ridicule”

— Bemy Wells

Flattery… gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.

— Willis Regier

“I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.”

— Dorothy Parker

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

— Louisa May Alcott

“To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.

— Anonymous

“If we are not receiving some type of ridicule for our beliefs, we are probably doing something wrong.”

— Dillon Burroughs

We live in a world where people can ridicule you at the push of the button. They can question you at the…

— Chadwick Boseman

I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in…

— Fanny Burney

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely…

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Michael McKean

“It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.”

— A.E. Samaan

Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and…

— Charles Bradlaugh

All I got from van Looy and his cronies was ridicule, not one piece of help or advice. They were very unfair,…

— Eddy Merckx

Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult...…

— Don Feder

To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and…

— Gelett Burgess

Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies…

— William Hazlitt

“The time has passed when he was an object of ridicule, and it is no longer a mark of eccentricity to defend…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Sadly, our values are fast eroding. Modesty and honesty are ridiculed. Deception and cheating are on the rise. May the Almighty protect…

— Mufti Ismail Menk

The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they…

— Moliere

Let the rabbit of free enterprise out of its velveteen bag and too many people would have to be fired, too much…

— Lewis H. Lapham

I found myself often asking the question, "Who deserves to be made fun of?" Depending on your mood, the answer can be…

— Ed Helms

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

It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman.…

— Ali Sina

Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millennia, and it has been another…

— Daniel Dennett

One can't imagine a Hollywood film whose entire purpose was to ridicule, say, homosexual activists, feminists, animal rights crusaders, or environmentalists. That…

— Lloyd Billingsley

What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a…

— Brennan Manning

Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political…

— Michael Salter

As a guy develops and practices his masculinity, he is accompanied by an invisible male chorus of all the other guys, who…

— Frank Pittman

It takes a pretty strong person, a rather unusual young person, to stand up to ridicule and refuse to give in to…

— Robert L. Millet

A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent…

— B. C. Forbes

Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not…

— Sathya Sai Baba

“I esteem myself happy to have as great an ally as you in my search for truth. I will read your work…

— Galileo Galilei

“On a social level, secularism is safe. As literally the world's most fundamental conformist, the secularist wants to call himself a revolutionary…

— Criss Jami

There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he…

— Charles Bukowski