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Ridicule Quotes

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

"Satires", Book I. 10. 14, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 673-74, 1922.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

Muriel Spark (2018). “A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

"'De genesi ad litteram libri duodecim' ('The Literal Meaning of Genesis')". Book by Augustine, Part I, www.newadvent.org. 415.

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

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1921, Delphi Classics

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

'Letters to his Son' (1774) 6 February 1752.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 13, st. 11

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

James Howard Kunstler (2003). “The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

And took for truth the test of ridicule.

George Crabbe, George Crabbe (Jr.) (1834). “The poetical works of the rev. George Crabbe: with his letters and journals, and his life”, p.174

Nobody can make a monkey out of anyone who isn't a monkey to start with.

Esther Forbes (1998). “Johnny Tremain”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt