Ridiculous Quotes

A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.

The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I'd look ridiculous.

It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.

That is ridiculous," she said. The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.

One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far.

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

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.

I think most people realize that Barbara and Jenna are college kids, and to make such a big deal out of it is a bit ridiculous. At least now, the press has stopped.

Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.

I've never been a major smoker, but I think America's view on weed is ridiculous. I mean - are you kidding me? If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

The idea that America has cornered the market on anti-immigration is ridiculous. It's a global phenomenon.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous.

I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous!

What doesn't draw you into a Coen Bros. movie. It's amazing. I can't believe it! They're the Coen Bros. It's ridiculous.

I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace.

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

If you think about it now, it's kind of ridiculous. All these hot girls on Baywatch in tiny little red bathing suits running around saving lives.

To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

It's a simple question of supply and demand. But all of us are grossly overpaid. I think it's a ridiculous dispute.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.

I'm not one of these guys who says 'Now I'm on a really hot show. Better quit soon before I get labeled.' That's the most ridiculous notion I'd ever heard.

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

I'm not religious anymore, but I think it's like papal infallibility, which is a ridiculous man-made tenet, like what I believe most religious tenets to be, are man-made after the fact.

Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

No one person can be above the ANC. He can't be.

A lawyer from Africa wants to marry Malia Obama in exchange for goats, sheep, and cows. In response, President Obama said, 'Don't be ridiculous. My daughter isn't marrying a lawyer.'

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!

It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today.

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

I didnt get arrested to show off my wild character. People say its a gimmick for all five of us to be different. Thats ridiculous.

Credulity is always ridiculous.

Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.