Ridiculous Quote by Nicolas Chamfort Download Open image “It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.” — Nicolas Chamfort ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ridiculous Wit
Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality. — Robert A. Baker Copy Share Image
people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous. — Mary Jane Holmes Copy Share Image
“Don’t be ridiculous.” Only one of the most condescending phrases in the English language…and” — Christine Pope Copy Share Image
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
There is nothing about myself that I wouldn't reveal or write about. I don't care how horrendous or ridiculous I may appear in person… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It's very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it's ridiculous to a lot of people and I understand… — Alexis Arquette Copy Share Image
I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars. — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous,… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
