Ridicule Quotes - Page 4

• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sublime, Steps, Ridiculous

  Quoted in D. G. De Pradt, Histoire de l'Ambassade dans le Grand-Duche de Varsovie en 1812 (1815) See Thomas Paine 30; Warton 1

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• Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh as often as they applaud, and being there first is usually lonely. But our protection cannot come between us and our purpose. Right protection is something within us rather than something between us and the world, more about finding a place of refuge and strength than finding a hiding place.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Spiritual, Lonely, Disappointment

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• You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults.

  Franck Ribery

  Strong, Children, Adults

  "Ribery: I'm proud of my scar as it gave me strength" by Mark Doyle, www.goal.com.

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• To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

  Blaise Pascal

  Philosophy

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• Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Destiny, Ridiculous, Unfortunate

  James Howard Kunstler (2003). “The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Fate, Animal, Vegetarianism

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• 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

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• I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wisdom, Philosophical, Effort

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• Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

  Horace

  Men, Remember, Esteem

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• Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

  Horace

  Acrimony, Settling

  "Satires", Book I. 10. 14, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 673-74, 1922.

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• Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.

  Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

  Sage, Examination, Tests

  "Characteristics", Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, Part I. Sect. V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 673-74, 1922.

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• That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Cutting, Hands, Sublime

  'Table Talk' (1835) 20 January 1834

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• How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

  Coward, Tests, Reasoning

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• Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

  David Byrne

  House, Tin, Shed

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• I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

  George Farquhar

  Believe, Belief, Laughed

  'The Beaux' Stratagem' (1707) act 3, sc. 1

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• We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that’s what it’s become, of being different.

  David Icke

  Dog, Sheep, Laughing

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• We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.

  R. C. Sproul

  Culture, Christianity, Claims

  Twitter post from May 4, 2017

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• Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Passion, Ambition, Pride

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• Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt.

  Joseph R. Bartlett

  Mind, Dignity, Natural

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• Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Bears

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• No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Matter, Ridiculous, Ends

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• Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

  Patricia Moyes

  Brutality, Sometimes, Easier

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• [Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.

  Madame de Stael

  Believe, Laughing, Feelings

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• So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

  Molly Ivins

  Laughter, Fun, Freedom

  "The Fun’s in the Fight". www.motherjones.com. May/June 1993.

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• I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Hatred, Claims

  "What Evangelicals and Atheists Have in Common" by Skye Jethani, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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