Ridicule Quotes:

Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.

- Alberto Juantorena

topic: World, Originality, Ridicule

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

topic: Coward, Tests, Ridicule, Ashley

If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!

- Arlene Francis

source: Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

topic: Tolerance, Intolerance, Ridicule

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

topic: Ridiculous, Neighbor, Ridicule

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Philosophy, Ridicule

To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Philosophy, Philosophical, Ridicule

Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

- Caitlin Thomas

topic: Bears, Ridicule

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

- Daniel Okrent

source: "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview with Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.

topic: Pundits, Ridicule

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

- David Byrne

topic: House, Tin, Ridicule

Nobody can make a monkey out of anyone who isn't a monkey to start with.

- Esther Forbes

source: Esther Forbes (1998). “Johnny Tremain”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Monkeys, Ridicule

Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Ridicule, Dishonour

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

- Frantz Fanon

topic: Mother, Children, Ridicule, Creole

And took for truth the test of ridicule.

- George Crabbe

topic: Truth, Tests, Ridicule

Silence can be the worst ridicule.

- Helen Nielsen

topic: Silence, Worst, Ridicule

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

- Horace

topic: Ridicule, Employed, Severity

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

- James Howard Kunstler

topic: Destiny, Ridiculous, Ridicule

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

source: Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

topic: Weapons, World, Ridicule

Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

- Molly Ivins

topic: Rejoice, Ridicule, Outrageous

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

- Muriel Spark

source: Muriel Spark (2018). “A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

topic: Weapons, Honorable, Ridicule

You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.

- Peter Dinklage

topic: Ridicule, Can Not

Ridicule is a public confession of fear.

- Vanna Bonta

topic: Confession, Ridicule

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.

- Walter Savage Landor

topic: Ridicule

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

- William Warburton

topic: Tests, Reason, Ridicule

Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.

- David R. Mains

topic: Christian, Religious, Ridicule

I am a fool, fools tend to follow their hearts amidst ridicule.

- Ellis

topic: Heart, Fool, Ridicule

Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.

- Steven Novella

topic: Claims, Ridicule, Deserve

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

source: Source: www.blackfive.net

topic: Writing, Ridicule

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

- Al Franken

source: Interview with Richard Blow, www.motherjones.com. November, 1996.

topic: Lying, Should, Ridicule

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

- Lord Byron

source: 'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 13, st. 11

topic: Spain, Chivalry, Ridicule

Once you identify yourself as believing something, you open yourself to ridicule.

- Jim Gaffigan

source: "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

topic: Believe, Ridicule

Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far.

- Alfred P. Sloan

source: Alfred P Sloan (2015). “My Years With General Motors”, p.106, eNet Press

topic: Engineering, Mind, Ridicule

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2396, Delphi Classics

topic: Wise, Fashion, Ridicule, Despots

RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.201, University of Georgia Press

topic: Character, Dignity, Ridicule

Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.

- Rajneesh

topic: Love, Logic, Ridicule, Smile Love

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

topic: Ridiculous, Ridicule

Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.

- H. P. Blavatsky

topic: Age, Weapons, Ridicule

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

- Horace

source: "Satires", Book I. 10. 14, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 673-74, 1922.

topic: Acrimony, Settling, Ridicule

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

- Horace

topic: Men, Remember, Ridicule

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

- Moliere

topic: Consistency, Ridicule, Suitable

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

- Boyd K. Packer

source: Boyd K. Packer (1975). “Teach Ye Diligently”

topic: Prayer, School, Ridicule

We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

- Saint Augustine

source: "'De genesi ad litteram libri duodecim' ('The Literal Meaning of Genesis')". Book by Augustine, Part I, www.newadvent.org. 415.

topic: Giving, Interpretation, Ridicule

Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.

- Saul

topic: Men, Weapons, Ridicule, Community Organizing, Rules For Radicals