Deceiving Quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I…

— Lord Chesterfield

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

— Lord Chesterfield

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test…

— Tryon Edwards

Ridicule is a public confession of fear.

— Vanna Bonta

We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in…

— John Keats

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

— James Howard Kunstler

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

— William Warburton

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

— Ralph Fiennes

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what…

— Walter Scott

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

— Albert Schweitzer