Mark Twain Quotes About Ridicule

• There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

  Mark Twain

  Character, Animal, Perfect

  Pudd'nhead Wilson "A Whisper to the Reader," "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

• There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Character, Personality

  Pudd'nhead Wilson "A Whisper to the Reader," "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

• We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

  Mark Twain

  Freedom, Heart, Democracy

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.77, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  God, Political, Religion

• There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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