Quotes About Ridicule

When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.

Comedians shame people.

I am shocked that both the Congress and SAD make fun of comedians.

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake.

The Gospels record that nearly everywhere the Savior went, He was surrounded by multitudes of people. Some hoped that He would heal them; others came to hear Him speak. Others came for practical advice. Toward the end of His mortal ministry, some came to mock and ridicule Him and to clamor for His crucifixion.

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

Europeans ridicule Muslim culture because they don't understand the wisdom behind it. Take swine flu for instance: all the sudden you've got Europeans scared of pigs - we've been saying that for years!

Comedy is a downward slicing sword sometimes, looking down and laughing at people.

I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.

Well, it's not easy to stand alone against the ridicule of others. He gambled for support and I gave it to him.

Every invention, every innovation in the history of the world, has been laughed at. Columbus was renounced as a faker; Morse was called a crank; Franklin a fool; Charles Darwin ridiculed for years. It seems to be the fate of every man or woman who discovers a new fact, to be made the subject of attacks of the most violent nature, without rhyme or reason.

when a child is ridiculed, shamed, hurt or ignored when she experiences and expresses a legitimate dependency need, she will later be inclined to attach those same affective tones to her dependency. Thus, she will experience her own (and perhaps others') dependency as ridiculous, shameful, painful, or denied. - Dependency in the Treatment of complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders 2001 Authors: Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

How cam'st thou to be the siege of this mooncalf?

Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sortAs if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spiritThat could be mov'd to smile at anything.

But, alas! to make meA fixed figure for the time of scornTo point his slow and moving finger at.

O that he were here to write me down an ass!

Egregiously an ass.

That's the humor of it.

Flattery.... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.

Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates. People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby.

The difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody's going to make fun of you.

Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.

He invaded the Women's Room with a Channel Ten news crew and cub reporter Mike Munro. The issue was voluntary fees. The point was ridicule. When asked to leave the room, Abbott declared for the cameras: "This is a man's room for the moment.