Action Quote by Oswald Mosley

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

— Anatole France

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

“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

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

— Luc de Clapiers

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

— Cesare Lombroso

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

— Sir Fulke Greville

Men are fantastic - as a concept.

— Jo Brand

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.

— Yves Saint Laurent

A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.

— Andre Maurois

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge