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Ridicule Quotes

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Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
Saul

Authors on Ridicule Quotes: Horace Ambrose Bierce Blaise Pascal Boyd K. Packer H. P. Blavatsky David Byrne Vanna Bonta Caitlin Thomas Frantz Fanon Alberto Juantorena Francois de La Rochefoucauld Alfred P. Sloan David R. Mains Lord Byron Rajneesh Peter Dinklage Jim Gaffigan W. E. B. Griffin George Crabbe Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Lord Chesterfield Saul Ellis Moliere Walter Savage Landor Helen Nielsen Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Al Franken Steven Novella Esther Forbes Muriel Spark William Hazlitt George Farquhar
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Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.
H. P. Blavatsky

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

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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
Muriel Spark

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We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.
Saint Augustine

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You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.
Peter Dinklage

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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
Blaise Pascal

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

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RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.
Ambrose Bierce

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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
Moliere

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Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.
Steven Novella

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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
William Hazlitt

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Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

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And took for truth the test of ridicule.
George Crabbe

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Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.
Horace

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I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.
Daniel Okrent

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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

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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.
Lord Byron

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

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I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
George Farquhar

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Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Lord Chesterfield

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Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.
James Howard Kunstler

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Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far.
Alfred P. Sloan

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There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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I am a fool, fools tend to follow their hearts amidst ridicule.
Ellis

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Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.
Alberto Juantorena

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Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
Ambrose Bierce

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Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
Al Franken

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Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.
Rajneesh

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Nobody can make a monkey out of anyone who isn't a monkey to start with.
Esther Forbes

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I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my life is when I was writing the sequels to "MASH". I was able to ridicule everyone.
W. E. B. Griffin

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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
Walter Savage Landor

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If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!
Arlene Francis

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The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.
Mary Roberts Rinehart

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Silence can be the worst ridicule.
Helen Nielsen

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To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]
Blaise Pascal

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Love can bear anything better than ridicule.
Caitlin Thomas

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If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
Boyd K. Packer

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We are afraid of failure, of ridicule, of being rejected. We are afraid we’re not good enough.
Rhonda Britten

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Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.
David R. Mains

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Ridicule is a public confession of fear.
Vanna Bonta

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One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.
Frantz Fanon

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Once you identify yourself as believing something, you open yourself to ridicule.
Jim Gaffigan