Ridicule Quotes
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Oscar Wilde -
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
Moliere
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In the '60s, to say this obvious fact that women were treated unequally was to make yourself the object of scorn and ridicule.
Eleanor Smeal -
All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.
William Shakespeare -
I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my life is when I was writing the sequels to "MASH". I was able to ridicule everyone.
W. E. B. Griffin -
I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
Abraham Lincoln -
Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
Ida Tarbell -
My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.
Tom Cruise
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Once you identify yourself as believing something, you open yourself to ridicule.
Jim Gaffigan -
There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.
Abraham Lincoln -
Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.
Sarah Ban Breathnach -
Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.
H. P. Blavatsky -
Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
William Warburton
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If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
Boyd K. Packer -
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
William Hazlitt -
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
Moliere -
Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.
Aron Nimzowitsch -
If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!
Arlene Francis -
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
Muriel Spark -
In the gospel of Jesus Christ, there is no place for ridicule, bullying, or bigotry.
Neil L. Andersen -
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
Blaise Pascal -
To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]
Blaise Pascal