Absurd Quote by Walter Scott Download Open image “Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.” — Walter Scott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurd Checks Noble Ridicule Thinking
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 Copy Share Image
Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule. — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule. — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“Ridicule is one of the favorite weapons of wickedness, and it is sometimes incomprehensible how good and brave boys will be influenced for evil… — Theodore Roosevelt ridicule bullying Copy Share Image
Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Of all the train, none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense.” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland? — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“but he had only received that sort of answer usually given by those who are more obstinate in following their own course, than strong… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. ” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J. C. Ryle 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
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
