| Author |
Quotes |
| Charles Simmons | Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools. |
| Dorothy Parker | I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon. |
| George Crabbe | Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule; Lucy saw no such virtue in a jest, Truth was with her of ridicule the test. |
| George Crabbe | And took for truth the test of ridicule. |
| George Farquhar | I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly. |
| Horace | Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect. |
| Horace | Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect. |
| Hubert Pierlot | Mockery is the weapon of those who have no other. |
| Hugh Blair | It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, is perfectly bombast. |
| Jean Francois Marmontel | Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. |
| Paul Klee | One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded. |
| Thomas Paine | The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below the sublime makes the ridiculous and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense. |
| Thomas Carlyle | We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth." |
| Thomas Carlyle | Ridicule is the language of the devil. |
| Thomas Fuller | 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 Jefferson | Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. |
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