Capable Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Giacomo Leopardi

“And what does it mean - ridiculous? wWhat does it matter how many times a man is or seems to be ridiculous? Besides, nowadays…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

— Jean Cocteau

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

— Robert A. Baker

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

— Roy Hattersley

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

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.

— Bill Maher

See the ridiculous in everything.

— Robert Smith

I am always amazed that so many people are concerned with wanting to be what they are not;What is the point of making yourself…

— Anonymous

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

— Agnes Repplier

We like being ridiculous and I think that's lost on a lot of people, or they think we're coming from this super serious angle,…

— Andrew VanWyngarden