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• In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned – or the very brilliant – dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person’s work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

  Joanne Harris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ridicule, Erudition

• It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn’t mean anything – even from people you’re supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.

  Dwight Schultz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ridicule, Community

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

  David Byrne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ridicule

• You know, I think it’s one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.

  Michael McKean

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Situation, Level, Ridicule

• I couldn’t walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

  David Icke

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Ridicule

• Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

  Tags in Ridicule, Dishonor

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

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Defects, Ourselves, Ridicule, Tired, Turning

• 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

  Tags in Ridicule, Reproach

• A husband who submits to his wife’s yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman’s influence ought to be entirely concealed.

  Honoré de Balzac

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ridicule, Justly, Wife

• I’m a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay’s geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

  Robert Ballard

  Tags in Student, Ridicule, Marshall

• You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

  Lord Melbourne

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Contempt, Ridicule, Manifest, Understand

• Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ridicule, Against, Reason

• Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Ridicule, Dragged, Slander

• Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.

  Vanna Bonta

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ridicule, Social Change, Growth

• 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

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Myself, Ridicule

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

  Baruch Spinoza

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Ridicule, Philosophy, Science