Quotes About Ridicule

Everything can be parodied, even parody.

the very idea of going to court is NOT done! It is not done at all, Jerome! It exposes one to public ridicule. It costs one respect! And you have got to get the idea you should be respected!

Carnsarn ye for a pair of busted-down, walleyed, spavined ignorantipedes! Gettin' so a man can't even git ten winks on his own chuck wagon without you buzzard baits clownin' up!

The only good copies are those that point out the ridicule of bad originals.

He's such a gargantuan asshole. A giant, stupid orifice. A walking, talking cranny.

Why are you such an asshat?" "An asshat?" Jace looked as if he were about to laugh.

Will: I say we sell her to the Gypsies on Hampstead Heath. I hear they puchase spare women as well as hoses. Charlotte: Will, stop it. That's ridivulous. Will:You're right. They'd never buy her. Too scrawny.

I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they're right.

I was the only "girl writer," probably because the power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy. Polls show that what women fear most from men is violence, and what men fear most from women is ridicule. Later, when Tina Fey was head writer and star of Saturday Night Live, she could still say, "Only in comedy does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.

Polls show that what women fear most from men is violence, and what men fear most from women is ridicule.

Conviene saber que el capote de Akaki Akákievich también era objeto de las burlas de sus compañeros; hasta le habían privado del noble nombre de capote y lo denominaban bata.

Despite himself he scoffed—a staccato bark of saliva—at the very notion of ladders.

When I was young, I read the Bible, and I already knew what it meant to be the good guy - and look what happened to Jesus. So, I already understood that you get ridiculed for telling the truth, and I've always been aware of that. But, I'm a guy with confidence, and I'm not afraid.

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

You know the world has gone mad when those who have enlightened, compassionate views and future visions, are accused of borderline insanity, ridiculed and criticised for thinking positively.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.