Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Don’t be ridiculous.” Only one of the most condescending phrases in the English language…and”

— Christine Pope

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean,…

— Joanna Baillie

“Nor is there any embarrassment in the fact that we're ridiculous, isn't that true? For it's actually so, we are ridiculous, light-minded, with bad…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Whoever said you can't love ridiculous things? God knows i love you, and you're the most ridiculous woman I ever met!”

— Richard Yates

“I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief.”

— Gillian Flynn

“Men were ridiculous, in all cultures and across time.”

— Magnus Flyte

“I have never felt more ridiculous. If this is what it means to be a woman I am not the slightest bit interested.”

— Libba Bray

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

— Jean Cocteau

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

— Giacomo Leopardi

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If this whole thing weren’t so ridiculous, it would be funny. Here he was crazy about a woman who was crazy about his brother…

— Marie Force