Top 129 Ridiculed Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.
People of faith find themselves marginalized and ridiculed. In a nation where our coins carry the motto, 'In God We Trust...'
Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.
As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.
In 2008, conservatives ridiculed the Left for its adulation of Barack Obama, only to succumb to their own cult of personality eight years later.
We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.
When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.
It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
When you've been ridiculed and talked about as much as I have over the course of my career, pressure doesn't exist.
First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.
We've got to turn this backward thinking around where ignorance is championed over intelligence. Young black kids being ridiculed by their peers for getting A's and speaking proper English: that's criminal.
We can all accept criticism of creative work, but to be publicly ridiculed for it is incredibly difficult to deal with.
You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.
When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today.
Unless your ideas are ridiculed by experts, they are worth nothing.
I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.
It's a horrible feeling to be mocked and ridiculed because of your race.
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.
I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.
Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.
Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists.
Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.
There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.
I think there's a lot of people who are afraid to experiment with clothing because they're afraid to get judged or ridiculed.
I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.
There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it.
For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.
As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism's traditional critics but also by many of its staunchest defenders.
Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies.
Look, they ridiculed Jesus Christ, so I'm certainly no exception.
All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered.
Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?
Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.
In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.
The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.
People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do.
Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.
Our officers are on the front lines - the first to show up on the scene of a crime. They should be respected; not ridiculed. They and their families protected; not put at risk.
Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.
Everything that I was ridiculed for as a child - being too feminine or wearing a dress - has made my life fabulous now.
I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?
Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.
In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.
I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.
Creatives are feared and ridiculed... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not.
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
