Ridicule Quotes · Page 8

You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults.

— Franck Ribery

No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

— Franz Grillparzer

We are afraid of failure, of ridicule, of being rejected. We are afraid we’re not good enough.

— Rhonda Britten

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

— Miguel de Unamuno

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

— David Foster Wallace

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

Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.

— Alberto Juantorena

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of…

— Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

Come let us mock at the good That fancied goodness might be gay, And sick of solitude Might proclaim a holiday: Wind…

— William Butler Yeats

Europeans ridicule Muslim culture because they don't understand the wisdom behind it. Take swine flu for instance: all the sudden you've got…

— Riaad Moosa

In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the…

— Frank X. Barron

Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all…

— Leo Tolstoy

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put…

— Aron Nimzowitsch

I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be…

— Dorothy Parker

Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans…

— Guus Kuijer

“In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you .…

— Sophie Germain

Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence.…

— Frederick William Robertson

A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would…

— Noam Chomsky

I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or…

— Ricky Gervais

It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to…

— Richard Whately

Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the…

— Edward Gibbon

The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In…

— J.P. Moreland

People will laugh at your dreams then hate you when you make then come true.

— Anonymous

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

— Abhijit Naskar

We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Calling out someone's sexuality to ridicule them is not funny nor a way to win an argument.

— Anonymous

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

“...when you hold people up for ridicule, you have the responsibility when other people act on it" -Hannah”

— Jay Asher

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Boyd K. Packer

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

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

— Anonymous

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

— Horace

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

— Anonymous

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

— J. Allen Hynek

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

— Walter Savage Landor

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

— David Mitchell