Quotes About Ridiculous

He was too absurd to make me angry. Indeed, it was a waste of energy, for if you were going to be angry with this man you would be angry all the time.

A joke will allow us to exploit something ridiculous in our enemy which we could not bring forward openly or consciously.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.", May 16, 1767)

There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.

You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance.

It's getting to be ri-goddamn-diculous.

Every time I caught Dee's eye – wearing an expression of weary resignation, the look of a man who had turned up again after five years to discover that things were as ridiculous as ever – I had a fit of the giggles.

Such petty provocations became routine, but we no longer had the benefit of surprise. We played a lot of good shows back then, but the more complacent a crowd seemed, the harder we pushed, and I probably ended up appearing faintly ridiculous at times. I felt like a clockwork toy running around in green light, pulling pantomime faces in vain or in spite. I'd wind people up and then let them down. We would either thrill and amaze or disappoint and disgrace and then get out of town.

The provinces are provinces; they are only ridiculous when they mimic Paris.

Perhaps the mind cannot be complete at all points; perhaps artists of every kind live too much in the present moment to study the future; perhaps they are too observant of the ridiculous to notice snares, or they may believe that none would dare to lay a snare for such as they.

Perhaps all love had something of the ridiculous in it.

It's become a running joke among the public, and liberals have lost all credibility when it comes to climate science because their arguments have become so ridiculous and so obviously disconnected from reality.

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.

The ridiculous events in everyday life are often overlooked - people don't recognise it as potentially cinematic.

People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry.

I probably would never be caught wearing a baseball cap. Hats are difficult to me because they tend to be too big for my head. They don't fit right, and I feel ridiculous.

Christmas parties for me are less about a sparkly dress and heels and more about the most ridiculous Christmas jumper I can find.

My husband is a martial artist, and he thinks it's hilarious that I have a stage-fighting-proficiency certificate. He thinks that's ridiculous. Can't say I've used it much.

You see this Fairy Land is full of oddities and all sorts of incredibly ridiculous things, which a man is compelled to meet and treat as real existences, although all the time he feels foolish for doing so.

No man knows it when he is making an idiot of himself.

But it was only in epic tragedies that gloom was unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy were so intermingled that when one was most wretched ridiculous things happened to make one laugh in spite of oneself

This was too much for Pen. 'Well I think it was a ridiculous thing to have said.' 'You see, she knows nothing of the world, Pen,' he said earnestly. 'Then too, she is impulsive! Do you know, she always makes me think of a bird?' 'A goose I suppose,' said Pen somewhat tartly.