Derision Quotes

50 quotes by 43 authors

I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a… — Louis Agassiz
Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live… — Teresa Medeiros
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise and… — Sathya Sai Baba
But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can… — Stephen Jay Gould
The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments,… — Benjamin Cardozo
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichÃ©s that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters,… — W. Somerset Maugham
When we grew up and went to school There were certain teachers who would Hurt the children anyway they could By pouring their derision Upon… — Roger Waters
In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture… — Thomas Aquinas
But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in… — Bertrand Russell
All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from… — Samuel Johnson
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of… — Heinrich Heine
He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care… — Dean Koontz
He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive… — Robert E. Sherwood
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. — Salman Rushdie
I resisted the temptation to turn around and stick out my tongue in derision at Beliquose. After all, there was no telling when or if… — Peter David
Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inner standards of… — Isaiah Berlin

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