Ridicule Quotes

272 Ridicule quotes by 227 unique authors

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental… — Winona Ryder
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. — Arthur Schopenhauer
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. — Baruch Spinoza
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. — Miguel de Unamuno
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. — Oscar Wilde
There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does.… — Molly Ivins
All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game.… — William Shakespeare
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to… — Che Guevara
But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness;… — Truman Capote
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man… — Thomas Jefferson
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize. — Blaise Pascal
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. — John Stuart Mill
Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that… — Joseph Heller
At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as… — Charlotte Bronte
One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it. — Frantz Fanon
He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself… — Patricia Briggs
It is said that the fear of public speaking is a fear greater than death for most people. According to psychiatrists, the fear of public… — Robert Kiyosaki
I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood. — Swami Vivekananda
The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in… — Raoul Vaneigem
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth. — E L Doctorow
What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it. — John Bunyan
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. — Thomas Jefferson

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