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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world's ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
— Frederick Douglass
In the gospel of Jesus Christ, there is no place for ridicule, bullying, or bigotry.
— Neil L. Andersen
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
— Honore De Balzac
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
— Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Few targets of ridicule are as easy to hit as owners and handlers of competitive show dogs.
— Meghan Daum
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
— Muriel Spark
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
— Edward Gibbon
Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart.
— Garth Brooks
A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
— John Stuart Mill
Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.
— Ralph Fiennes
An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.
— Marva Collins
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.
— Dwight Schultz
Always laugh when mediocre minds makes fun of you, for in your grieve, the ridicule is having an effect
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
— Louisa May Alcott
He knew that so long as the vestiges of his old self remained with him, his new self would never be safe from ridicule and incomprehension.
— A. Igoni Barrett
We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule.
— Frank Skinner
I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good.
— Jane Austen
Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.
— Leslie Feinberg
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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.
— Ambrose Bierce
You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.
— Marty Rubin
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.
— Thomas Jefferson
In modern America, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often held up to ridicule and disdain by the media.
— D. James Kennedy
Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.
— Patricia Moyes
Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.
— Anthony Ashley Cooper
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
— Saul Alinsky
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
— William Hazlitt
I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.
— Beverley Mitchell
I accepted their ridicule by sulking manfully.
— Robin Hobb
You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.
— Michael McKean
Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
If we are not receiving some type of ridicule for our beliefs, we are probably doing something wrong.
— Dillon Burroughs
If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
— Rowan Atkinson
When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.
— Madame De Stael
Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.
— Adam Ant
When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
— Miguel De Unamuno
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Silence can be the worst ridicule.
— Helen Nielsen
Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.
— Alberto Juantorena
She swallowed the ridicule & washed it down with criticism, It was far sweeter than the taste of obscurity.
— C.E. O'Grady
Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule.
— Neel Mukherjee
When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.
— Anthony Liccione
The fear of being ridiculed is gruesome than death.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.
— Joseph Addison
The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.
— William Safire
The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.
— Mary Higgins Clark
I used to wonder why people made New Jersey jokes. I don't anymore.
— E.J. Copperman
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
— Thomas Jefferson
The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.
— Joseph Addison
Ridicule is a public confession of fear.
— Vanna Bonta
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
— Albert Schweitzer
There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.
— Bernard Hopkins
Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
— Al Franken
Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.
— Matthew Specktor
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
— Andre Gide
We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.
— Mark Twain
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
— Frederick Douglass
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
— Joseph Addison
We are afraid of failure, of ridicule, of being rejected. We are afraid we're not good enough.
— Rhonda Britten
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
— William Warburton
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
— Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
— Dorothy Parker
We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologiesbut this is very different. — David Foster Wallace
Love can bear anything better than ridicule.
— Caitlin Thomas
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
— Baruch Spinoza
I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.
— Daniel Okrent
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.
— Juvenal
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
— Thomas Jefferson
I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.
— Alison Jackson
It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Ignore the critics ... Only mediocrity is safe from ridicule. Dare to be different!
— Dita Von Teese
Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is
— J. Allen Hynek
You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults.
— Franck Ribery
You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.
— Peter Dinklage
