Ludicrous Quotes

98 Ludicrous quotes by 91 unique authors

ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an… — Ambrose Bierce
No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous. — Mark Twain
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as… — Robert Briffault
The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist… — Georg Baselitz
To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of… — Jodi Picoult
The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in payment and in… — Daryl Hannah
You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous. — Noel Gallagher
Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression. — Germaine Greer
I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who… — NeNe Leakes
Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie! — John Lydon
Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable. — Paul Lynde
Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous… — John Podhoretz
Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry. — Michael Shannon
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that… — Patrick Stewart
I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. — Mike Tyson
You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in… — Joyce Carol Oates
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that… — Chuck Palahniuk
He would not let her go. Even though, staring into her open eyes in the swirling salt-filled water, with sun flashing though each wave, he… — Elizabeth Strout
The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow… — Carl Sagan
...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to… — Kurt Vonnegut
During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem… — Louisa May Alcott
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind. — Aldous Huxley
Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it… — Christopher Hitchens
Will you be quiet?" he asked, smiling down at her. She nodded. He pretended to think about it. "I don't believe you/" She planted her… — Julia Quinn
There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when… — Charles Dickens

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