Ridicule quotes

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◆ You think suicide is cowardly? I'll tell you what's cowardly. Hurting someone so much that they think ending their lives is the only way to make it better.

- Ashley Purdy100

◆ Ridicule is the language of the devil

- Thomas Carlyle99

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

- Vanna Bonta99

◆ The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

- Niklaus Wirth99

◆ It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

- Winona Ryder99

◆ Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld99

◆ I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

- Beverley Mitchell99

◆ I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed.

- Susannah McCorkle99

◆ While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

- Andrea Dworkin99

◆ 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 Hugo99

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

- William Hazlitt99

◆ 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.

- Honore De Balzac99

◆ No matter how valuable, advice on how to succeed, coming from an unsuccessful man, will be received with poor grace or even ridicule.

- 99

◆ I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem

- Arthur Conan Doyle Sr99

◆ The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

- St Thomas Aquinas99