Ridicule Quotes

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

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

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.

When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.

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.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

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

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.

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

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

I have been the subject of ridicule. People talk about me and they don't know me and this is an opportunity to tell my story ... to have my voice and to set the record straight.

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

When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.

In modern America, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often held up to ridicule and disdain by the media.

When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

Any celebrity that goes on Twitter and spouts off, as if we should care what they say, is opening himself or herself up to ridicule by anyone else.

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.

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

ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.

The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

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

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

Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.

Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult... The tenets of Christianity are regularly held up to ridicule.

In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.

The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]

Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.

It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline to the test by successfully living it in the face of ridicule.

Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart.

Silence can be the worst ridicule.

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.