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Quotes About Ridicule

Shame is about the fear of disconnection. When we are experiencing shame, we are steeped in the fear of being ridiculed, diminished or seen as flawed. We are afraid that we've exposed or revealed a part of us that jeopardizes our connection and our worthiness of acceptance.
~ Brene Brown
When we are experiencing shame, we are steeped in the fear of being ridiculed, diminished or seen as flawed. We are afraid that we've exposed or revealed a part of us that jeopardizes our connection and our worthiness of acceptance.
~ Brene Brown
Shame: Is fear of ridicule and belittling used to manage people and/or to keep people in line? Is self-worth tied to achievement, productivity, or compliance? Are blaming and finger-pointing norms? Are put-downs and name-calling rampant? What about favoritism? Is perfectionism an issue?
~ Brene Brown
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
~ Honore de Balzac
I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.
~ Ricky Gervais
Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.
~ Neill Blomkamp
If there was any creature in American culture more derided than the young girl... I know people will argue with me about that, but everything girls are into gets ridiculed. I have a lot of compassion in my heart for girls in their teens and twenties who are going through this particular passage, because I get it. It makes sense!
~ Kelly Sue DeConnick
The word tells us that trials will come ahead and we'll be ridiculed more for our faith. So if you're going to go in as a believer thinking that everything is going to be smooth, you're probably not in the right mind-set. It's going to be tough at times, and has been for me personally.
~ Anthony Rendon
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
~ Oscar Wilde
If someone ridicules you, say to him, I love you.
~ Debasish Mridha
The thing that grieves the heart of the Lord is when truth is ridiculed. When God doesn't see men who stand in defense of the truth.
~ Sunday Adelaja
When men allow other people to ridicule, laugh and jeer at the truth, that cannot but bring sorrow to the heart of God
~ Sunday Adelaja
Beware the ridiculous. It will one day rule you.
~ Steven Dietz
Mon cher je meprise les femmes pur ne pas les aimer, car autrement la vie serait un melodrame trop ridicule.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Es un maestro de las largas pausas. Sabe que sólo los tímidos las temen y que se precipitan, cuando no saben qué contestar, en frases apuradas que les ridiculizan
~ Milan Kundera
Who mocks at music mocks at love.
~ William Butler Yeats
Love can bear anything better than ridicule.
~ Caitlin Thomas
O sabichão do grupo, não acredita em nada, zomba de todo mundo. Quando não tem argumentos, implica com os outros e toma o silêncio de seus interlocutores como concordância.
~ Bram Stoker
His face appeared to have been massaged with an industrial cheese grater and then retouched with a glue gun.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.
~ Terry Pratchett
Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying.
~ Terry Pratchett
There is nothing in human affairs that is a true subject for ridicule. Beneath comedy lies the ferment of tragedy; the farcical is but a cloak for coming catastrophe.
~ Gabriel Chevallier
How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.
~ Gail Carriger
many of these left wing idiots tried to fight Kellen and his Nazi followers using logic and rational arguments. Are you kidding me? That shit never works. What the country needed was someone who would make fun of them for the idiotic, small dick, insecure, evil fucks that they were.
~ Gary Whitta