A Quote by Oscar Wilde

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Oscar Wilde

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Genius Paid Ridicule Tribute

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Oscar Wilde
Irish - Poet
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

Cesare Lombroso

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

Cesare Lombroso

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Guy de Maupassant

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Fulton J. Sheen

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Oscar Wilde

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Fulton J. Sheen

I can't stand tribute bands. It's nice, bless 'em, but it's not right. They can't capture the right spirit. You never see a tribute comedian, a tribute Les Dawson.

Dave Davies

The golden rays of the moon paid him absolute tribute. He was a buffet of muscles and corded strength.

Gena Showalter

President Bush paid homage Wednesday to World War II veterans of Normandy at the D-Day Memorial. Later that night, his twin daughters paid a special tribute to World War II veterans of the Pacific. They each downed two kamikazes.

Argus Hamilton

I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.

Ricky Gervais

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

Emile M. Cioran

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.

Otto Weininger

A bet is a tax on bullshit; and it is a just tax, tribute paid by the bullshitters to those with genuine knowledge.

Alex Tabarrok

He [John Le Carré] really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice - they are greater men and women than I.