Ridicule Quotes

There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.

I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.

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.

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule.

A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner

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

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

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

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

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

But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.

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

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

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

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

Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

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

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.

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

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

Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.

And took for truth the test of ridicule.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to put down free speech, whatever the excuse.

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

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.

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

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.