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Letter "R" » ridicule
«Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool»
Author: Charles Simmons | About: Ridicule | Keywords: first and last, ridicule
«Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.»
Author: William Warburton | Keywords: ridicule
«Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Genius, Mediocrity, Ridicule | Keywords: genius, paid, pay out, pay up, ridicule, ridiculed, ridicules, The Genius, tribute, tributes
«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. It may be graphic, mimetic or merely rident. Shaftesbury is quoted as having pronounced it the test of truth --a ridiculous assertion, for many a solemn fallacy has undergone centuries of ridicule with no abatement of its popular acceptance. What, for example, has been more valorously derided than the doctrine of Infant Respectability?»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: abatement, deride, derided, devoid of, graphic, graphics, infant, mimetic, quoted, ridicule, undergone, utters, valorously
«Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.»
Author: Joseph Addison (Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman) | About: Ridicule | Keywords: attacking, made use of, praiseworthy, ridicule
«Ridicule is the best test of truth»
Author: Lord Chesterfield (Diplomat, Statesman, Wit) | About: Ridicule | Keywords: ridicule
«Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott (Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: absurd, checks, ridicule, smothered, smothering, smothers
«Ridicule is the language of the devil»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Ridicule | Keywords: ridicule
«Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | Keywords: only when, resort, resorted, resorting, ridicule, ridiculed, ridicules
«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.»
Author: Victor Hugo (Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: dragged, lift, Mass, republic, ridicule, ridiculed, ridicules, slander, slandered, slandering, Slanders, tries
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