(381 quotes found)
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”
Agatha Christie
“Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.”
Oscar Wilde
“I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.”
Rodney Dangerfield
“I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.”
Dorothy Parker
“Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.”
Louisa May Alcott
“I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.”
Beverly Mitchell
“Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool”
Charles Simmons
“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them”
Baruch Spinoza
“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.”
Carrie P. Snow
“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
