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Quotes About Ridicule

Just as poor Mr Wyerley, and others we both know, profane and ridicule Scripture; and all to evidence their pretensions to the same pernicious talent, and to have it thought that they are too wise to be good.
~ Samuel Richardson
Ah, é uma praga, a vida que se exibe, uma verdadeira praga! Estamos numa época em que todos os ridículos filhos de Adão desejam evidenciar-se perante os outros, com todos os seus ditos espirituosos, esgares e tiques, toda a glória da fealdade auto-adorada, afirmando aos restantes - num transbordar de narcisismo que os outros interpretam como benevolência - 'Aqui estou para dar testemunho. Vim para lhes servir de exemplo'. Pobres espectros tontos!.
~ Saul Bellow
Der Verständige findet fast alles lächerlich, der Vernünftige fast nichts.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do you have a particularly small penis, sir? Is that why you feel the need to compensate for your inadequacies with this behavior? If so, let me assure you, it didn't work. You still have a very small penis, and now you look like an idiot, too." De
~ John Birmingham
Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries
~ John Cleese
Some people in this life really enjoy being sent up and Nicholas Parsons is one of them because he's a sadomasochist.
~ Derek Nimmo
[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.
~ Madame de Stael
Those, who go to aliens with a begging bowl for financial assistance in the pursuit of retaining power in their country and damage national pride, and subject the nation to international ridicule. Such people are criminals.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Comedy is about making mockery of the hypocrisy of the society.
~ Anuj Somany
Fools and fake are first to follow the rules & guidelines made by fraud in power to ridicule the ordinary people.
~ Anuj Somany
He who works like a mule under the rule & whip of his wife and does not feel ashamed of himself and rather grins or laughs on being ridiculed by the people calling him a henpecked husband, is a validated FOOL.
~ Anuj Somany
Most people around a person have a unique way of making fun of him/her as they often support the post only of a netizen whom they find not a good competitor to anyone.
~ Anuj Somany
The more a person gets altruistically truthful to help the fools, the more they will ignore and sometimes even ridicule him
~ Anuj Somany
In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.
~ Arthur Bremer
I am quite sure that a little man who braves ridicule to improve the lot of his fellow men, and is thanked by their jibes, is an interesting character.
~ Preston Sturges
What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world's ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
~ Frederick Douglass
Slavery blunts the edge of all our rebukes of tyranny abroad - the criticisms that we make upon other nations, only call forth ridicule, contempt, and scorn. In a word, we are made a reproach and a by-word to a mocking earth, and we must continue to be so made, so long as slavery continues to pollute our soil.
~ Frederick Douglass
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence
~ Frederick Douglass
What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The sentimentality that people see and hear in my commentary and sometimes ridicule, parody or just don't like - that's okay. We're all wired differently. I think about that a lot. I can't explain it. That's just what runs through my blood. It's just the way I look at the world.
~ Jim Nantz
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.
~ Joanne Harris
In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.
~ Arthur Bremer
The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
~ Ted Cruz
Combien il est ridicule de ne point chercher à éviter sa propre méchanceté, ce qui est possible, et de vouloir éviter celle des autres, ce qui ne l'est pas !
~ Marc Aurèle