Laughable Quotes
55 quotes by 51 authors
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As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too…
— David Gilmour
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When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them.…
— Terrence Malick
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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
— Plato
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Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
— Charles Kennedy
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The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that…
— Tamara Mellon
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The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.
— Samuel West
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Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When…
— Chet Baker
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A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention.
— Michael J. Gelb
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I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over…
— Robert Draper
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There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable,…
— Will Arnett
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of…
— Lynn Margulis
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Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.
— Joaquin Phoenix
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A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in…
— Herman Melville
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Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one…
— Sherman Alexie
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It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.
— Libba Bray
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Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our…
— Milan Kundera
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