Quotes About Ridicule

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.

I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words.

To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.

Thou art a peanut.

A chi è nato senza coscienza, l'uomo che ne è afflitto deve apparire ridicolo. Per un criminale l'onestà è stupida. Non dobbiamo dimenticare che il mostro non è che una deviazione, e che per un mostro la normalità è mostruosa.

JOHN WATERS: In Cry-Baby Traci played a sexpot-which is always the best way to rid yourself of an image, by playing it and making fun of it. That's what Johnny Deep did, too. He was on Jump Street, and he hated playing a teen idol, so I said, stick with us; we'll kill that. And we did - in the right way, you know?

Rainbow dust? sneered Joe, drawing out each syllable until it snapped from the weight of his contempt.

It appears there's a little too much chlorine in their gene pool.

The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

Alle de ting eksisterede ikke, eftersom man ikke havde lov til at bruge de ord, der betegnede dem. De var allesammen uden værdi. De kunne allesammen til nød være latterlige, altså genstande for hånlige og ligegyldige morsomheder.

Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.

Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.

Oh, stow your whids, you dreary watering-pot

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule." Clarence Birdseye

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. —James Thurber

This need for hostility bred what is called nihilistic humor—humor based on the theory that there is no person or thing so sacred as to be beyond ridicule. Humorists, protected

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.

You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.

Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.

Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you.