Quotes About Ridicule

Let's say that you have this mystical right to cut my legs off. But the right to ridicule me afterwards because I am a cripple — no, that I think you haven't got. And that's the right you hold most dearly, isn't it? You must be able to despise the people you exploit.

when you are dead to the world, the world rescues you, if only to make a figure of fun out of you

I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.

Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads 'The End Is Near,' passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you're like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.

If you can make someone laugh about something that your opponent or your opposition thinks, that means you've done a really good job of highlighting what's wrong with their argument or their position.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

y en la risotada de un país gozoso con el chiste fácil que humilla a los débiles.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

Smee you, idjit!

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies--but this is very different.

The girl's sense of ridicule was far stronger than her gratitude.

Get you gone, you dwarf, You minimus of hindering knotgrass made, You bead, you acorn!

All of Creation's a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.

O, that he were here to write me down an ass! But, masters, remember, that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.

Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.

Thou frothy tickle-brained hedge-pig!

The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! Where got'st thou that goose look?

Away you three-inch fool!

If they weren't staring at a fellow, they were laughing at him.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

After all, would the world really miss this fatuous little suppository, with his preening self-confidence and emetic cuteness?

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