Ridicule Quotes
272 quotes by 231 authors
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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative…
— Rowan Atkinson
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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
— Honore de Balzac
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some…
— William Blake
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Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy…
— Matt Bomer
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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.
— David Byrne
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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the…
— Frederick William Robertson
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An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.
— Marva Collins
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It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for the identities that…
— Paulo Freire
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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or…
— Milan Kundera
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We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which is kind, meek,…
— Howard W. Hunter
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Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule…
— Charles Babbage
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No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field,…
— Mark Twain
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The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.
— Bill Maher
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When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be…
— Laozi
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We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule.
— Frank Skinner
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Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity has…
— Augustus De Morgan
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Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has been another sour sort of…
— Daniel Dennett
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