Derision Quotes

• Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Agonizing, Misguided, Wander

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• Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.

  Og Mandino

  Pain, Self, Laughing

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• Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Wife, Our Love

  'Dolores' (1866) st. 20

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• Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

  Lewis Carroll

  Education, Ambition, Turtles

  Lewis Carroll (1992). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

  Khalil Gibran

  Faith, Powerful, Forever

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• Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

  Quintilian

  Laughter, Laughing, Raises

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• He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.

  Robert E. Sherwood

  Independent, Bravery, Effort

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• No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.

  Irving Kaufman

  Law, Dynamics, Fruit

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• The derision comes from snobbery, which I think is the worst thing for art and music. I don't think there's any place for it and it comes from insecurity.

  Theo Hutchcraft

  Art, Thinking, Insecurity

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

  Charles Bukowski

  Trying, Way, Valuable Life

  "Fictional character: Henry Chinaski". "Factotum", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Never take yourself too seriously.

  Ariana Grande

  Pity, Laugh At Yourself, Whining

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• I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in which I know what I should not find there. I apprehend that I should not find the work abounding in strong encouragements to the worship of idols; that the praises of polytheism would not be loudly sung; that the character of Mohammed would not be subjected to anything resembling hatred and derision; and that the great modern doctrine of the unimportance of religion would not be needlessly emphasised.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Encouragement, Strong, Character

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• If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

  Charles Bukowski

  Laughter, Fighting, Night

  "Fictional character: Henry Chinaski". "Factotum", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

  Salman Rushdie

  Ideas, Criticism, Impossible

  "Salman Rushdie: Do we have to fight the battle for the Enlightenment all over again?" by Salman Rushdie, www.independent.co.uk. January 22, 2005.

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• Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

  Eloisa James

  Writing, Imagination, Faces

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• Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

  Joseph Addison

  Character, Men, Vanity

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.158

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• When people get to speak about themselves and the things that matter to them, on their own terms, we see them as who they are. They can't be reduced to objects of derision.

  Rachel Maddow

  People, Matter, Speak

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Tears, Looks

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.149

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• A schmuck is a general term of disrespect. It's a term of contempt and derision. It applies to a lot of people.

  Jackie Mason

  People, Disrespect, Schmucks

  Source: spectator.org

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• Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Laughter, Pain, Heart

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1911). “In Desert and Wilderness”, p.148, Jester House Publishing

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• When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them.

  Richard Madden

  Couple, Years, Tv Shows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy.

  John Piper

  Essence, Evil, Broken

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• Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inner standards of behavior, are objects of fear and derision and targets of persecution for either side... in the great ideological wars of our time.

  Isaiah Berlin

  War, Tyrants, Yesterday

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• He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care enough about him to really find out what he was like and what his dreams were. He was an outcast, a creature somehow vastly different from all other people, an object of scorn and derision, an outsider, secretly loathed and ridiculed by everyone who met him, even by those few who professed to love him.

  Dean Koontz

  Dream, People, Different

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• My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Writing, Mets, Dismissal

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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