#ridicule

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. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#because #been #believe #humiliated #i

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

— Oscar Wilde

#mediocrities #paid #ridicule #tribute

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#everything #grow #into #others #ourselves

Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#disease #dismissed #first #hear #i

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#challenging #confronted #considerable #corruption #cost

You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule. ↗

— Michael McKean

#dictate #does #i #i think #know

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#clear #criticism #insult #interpreted #many

You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#cane #fellows #good #good place #got

I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat. ↗

— Moby

#filled #i #idea #instantly #into

I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#astrology #been #care #criticized #i