Ridicule Quotes
272 quotes by 227 authors
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Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh as often as…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then…
— Paul Klee
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Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.
— William Ernest Henley
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In much of today's popular culture, the virtues of forgiveness and kindness are belittled, while ridicule, anger, and harsh criticism are encouraged. Let us not…
— David E. Sorensen
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Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
— Samuel Johnson
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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
— David Foster Wallace
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There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon…
— Mark Twain
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The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security…
— Walt Whitman
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It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through…
— Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers…
— Oscar Wilde
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and…
— Seneca the Younger
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No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within…
— James Madison
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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of…
— Horace Walpole
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You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.
— Peter Dinklage
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A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law…
— Rowan Atkinson
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My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn…
— Tom Cruise
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If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to…
— Lauryn Hill
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One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently…
— Thomas Paine
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I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t imagine a more…
— Manny Farber
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There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and…
— Charles Bukowski
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