Quotes About Ridicule

It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for one's self before echoing the vulgar ridicule of it. But in connection with the Bible, such scholarly restraints are somehow regarded as out of place.

nah-nah-nah boo-boo on you.

Butt cheeks and belly button lint, Fart burgers on toast. I like to eat toenail clippings And earwax the most. Dumbheads and idiots And morons I hate. Armpits and dog doo And snot on my plate.   There

I was a car journalist when I started on 'Top Gear.' It was all about cars. And then it all spun out of all control, and we turned into figures of ridicule to keep the viewers happy. It's a fair deal, I suppose.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Marx and Engels never tried to refute their opponents with argument. They insulted, ridiculed, derided, slandered, and traduced them, and in the use of these methods their followers are not less expert. Their polemic is directed never against the argument of the opponent, but always against his person.

La tonta de remate

My group ridiculed and made fun of anyone who was not like us, and that comprised almost everyone! People with negative identity drop out and stand on the sidelines of life, making fun of everyone else. In actuality I was terrified of life.

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bull, was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster!

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.

RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.

Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.

I'm mostly laughing, because you're such an idiot.

C'est un mot ridicule, dit Jack. -« Passif »? -Non, protagoniste! Je sais que c'est un mot à la mode, mais quand vous le dites, j'entends prout! et agonie! C'est difficile de ne pas se mettre à rire...

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.

Secrecy laws and incomplete information hog-tied journalists who tried to expose offshore wrongdoing. Lawsuits and public ridicule frequently followed publication. A partial picture allowed critics to dismiss findings as anomalies rather than patterns.

A cape?" CeeCee said. "What kind of a moron wears a cape? Oh, &%$#!

Abuse counselors say of the abusive client: "When he looks at himself in the morning and sees his dirty face, he sets about washing the mirror." In other words, he becomes upset and accusatory when his partner exhibits the predictable effects of chronic mistreatment, and then he adds insult to injury by ridiculing her for feeling hurt by him. He even uses her emotional injuries as excuses to mistreat her further.

The abusive man has another reason to exaggerate and ridicule his partner's statements (and mine): He wants to avoid having to think seriously about what she is saying and struggle to digest it.

Rather than think critically, we seek out people who share our opinions and who encourage us to ridicule the ideas of those whose convictions and perspectives clash with our own. At many levels, contempt has become a defining characteristic of American politics. It makes us unwilling to listen to what others say—unwilling, in some cases, even to allow them to speak.

we all tend to live in media and information bubbles that reinforce our grievances instead of causing us to look at difficult questions from many sides. Rather than think critically, we seek out people who share our opinions and who encourage us to ridicule ideas of those whose convictions and perspectives clash with our own.

He did not fear ridicule, he had never known it.

Will you please stop screeching like a fishmonger and run along? Don't you have a bottle of muscatel baking in the oven?