Ridicule

(224 votes)   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
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(146 votes)   Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(128 votes)   Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

Jean De La Bruyere
1645-1696, French Writer

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

Martin Tupper
1810-1889, British Author, Poet, Inventor

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(118 votes)   It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.

Lord Chesterfield
1694-1773, British Statesman, Author

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(114 votes)   Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(111 votes)   Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

Sir Walter Scott
1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet

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(98 votes)   Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.

Franz Grillparzer
1791-1872, Austrian Dramatic Poet

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