Quotes About Ridicule

ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

Finally, he [John F. Mercer] ridiculed Hamilton as an upstart, a mushroom excrescence, who did not deserve the prominence he had gained.

I won't ridicule you." He walked up to the window. "Want a Coke?' "Cherry slurpe." He rolled his eyes. "And you make fun of me." "See? Ridicule because I want a slurpy." "Vivi, you're thrity-one years old." "Right. So make it a vodka slurpy and meet me at that table.

Of a man who only wills the Good out of fear of punishment, it is necessary to say with special emphasis, that he fears what a man should not and ought not to fear: loss of money, loss of reputation, misjudgment by others, neglect, the world's judgment, the ridicule of fools, the laughter of the frivolous, the cowardly whining of consideration, the inflated triviality of the moment, the fluttering mist-forms of vapor.

El compromiso es, desde luego, el más ridículo de todos los estados y situaciones ridículas. El matrimonio, por lo menos, tiene un sentido, aunque traiga aparejadas muchas molestias. Pero el compromiso es un invento que se debe únicamente al hombre y no honra, desde luego, a su inventor.

Misery makes sport to mock itself.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered.

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

Se fosse stato giorno e avesse potuto vedere l'aspetto che aveva, si sarebbe gettato dalla finestra in quello stesso istante e il tragico l'avrebbe salvato dal ridicolo

Quand on compare ces vaines apparences de la liberté avec l'impuissance réelle qui y était jointe, on y découvre déjà en petit comment le gouvernement le plus absolu peut se combiner avec quelques-unes des formes de la plus extrême démocraties, de telle sorte qu'à l'oppression vienne encore s'ajouter le ridicule de n'avoir pas l'air de la voir

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

BALLOON, n. A contrivance for larding the earth with the fat of fools.

You're a fine one to talk, Skinny Rikke. Every pinch o' meat fell off you when you went to see the witch. You're like a head stuck on a spear these days, but without the flies. Most o' the flies, at least." And she burst out laughing.

And he paddled away in his douche canoe.

I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.

You're growling, poodle! Animal squealings 1230 Hardly suit the exalted feelings Filling my soul to overflowing. We're used to people ridiculing What they hardly understand, Grumbling at the good and the beautiful— It makes them so uncomfortable! Do dogs now emulate mankind?

Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!

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.

These tribes differed little from one another, either in appearance or in language. They spoke different dialects, which they could all understand if they chose. But they very rarely did. For, as is often the case, these close-related, neighbouring tribes were unable to get on with one another. They spent all their time exchanging insults and ridicule, when actually they were jealous of each other.

Vain labour for me — vain labour almost for the grave English language — to do justice to the sparkling paradoxes that flew from lip to lip. The favourite theme was the superiority of the moderns to the ancients. Condorcet on this head was eloquent, and to some, at least, of his audience, most convincing. That Voltaire was greater than Homer few there were disposed to deny. Keen was the ridicule lavished on the dull pedantry which finds everything ancient necessarily sublime.

They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Piano.

The just upright man is laughed to scorn.