Ridiculous Quotes - Page 6
Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.
Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.54, Lulu.com
William Saroyan, William E. Justice (2008). “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader”, Heyday Books
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
"On Moore's Life of Lord Byron" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1830.
R. D. Laing (2008). “Knots”, p.68, Marbot Ediciones
Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.37, Tin House Books
Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.238
John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.38, Ardent Media
Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.319, Indiana University Press
Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.25, Penguin
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.486