“ He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich that they in turn may care for the laboring poor. ”
- Grover Cleveland- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule. ”
- Franz Grillparzer- Copy
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“ Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. ”
- Martin Tupper- Copy
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“ Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
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“ We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. ”
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis- Copy
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“ The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again. ”
- Charles Kingsley- Copy
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“ Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,"' the Mock Turtle replied; "and then the different branches of Arithmetic — Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. ”
- Lewis Carroll- Copy
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“ He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff, But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
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“ The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. ”
- Sarah Orne Jewett- Copy
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“ Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away. ”
- Frank Herbert- Copy
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“ We shall be winnowed with so rough a wind That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff And good from bad find no partition. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
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“ Away, and mock the time with fairest show; False face must hide what the false heart doth khow. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I'm good at being sarcastic with guys. They don't want the quiet, prissy little things. ”
- Jessica Alba- Copy
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“ Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright; to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mock'ry. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches! ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ Oh, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip! - Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ What I liked about the story is that it throws up all these questions. The movie teases the audience. 'Is she having an affair?'. ”
- Ralph Fiennes- Copy
- 1.7K
“ What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt? ”
- Khalil Gibran- Copy
- 899
“ No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own. ”
- Franz Grillparzer- Copy
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