(370 quotes found)
“Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.”
Milan Kundera
“Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.”
Sir Walter Scott
“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
“It's ridiculous, ... Like, 'Why would he beat his shelf? Why? Why, Andrew Milonakis?' And then I say, 'Stop asking yourself questions and calling yourself Andrew Milonakis!' And I never listen.”
Andy Milonakis
“I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice, and have received a great deal of kindness not quite free from ridicule.”
Abraham Lincoln
“If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.”
Willem de Kooning
“Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn”
Olive Schreiner
“The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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