Ridicule Quotes

272 Ridicule quotes by 227 unique authors

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies. — David Foster Wallace
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule. — Peter Dinklage
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
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
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
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
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
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 ridicule will only… — Charles Bukowski
Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently… — Aron Nimzowitsch
It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says 'nucular' and 'misunderestimate'… — Noam Chomsky
The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about. — Albert Einstein
Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool. — Charles Simmons
It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that… — Clementine Ford
When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not… — Bernard Haisch
I hate when models say 'Oh, plastic surgery is just a wrong thing. What are you talking about? You won the genetic lottery. You look… — Tyra Banks
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

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