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"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."

Austen, Jane on ridicule    Share


"I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly."

Farquhar, George on ridicule    Share

"Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success."

Goldsmith, Oliver on ridicule    Share

"Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule."

Grillparzer, Franz on ridicule    Share

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

Hazlitt, William on ridicule    Share

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

Jefferson, Thomas on ridicule    Share

"No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches."

Kundera, Milan on ridicule    Share

"Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit."

La Bruyere, Jean De on ridicule
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"Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble."

Scott, Sir Walter on ridicule    Share

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."

Szasz, Thomas on ridicule    Share

"Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh."

Tupper, Martin on ridicule    Share

"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."

Twain, Mark on ridicule    Share

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