#ridicule

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#exaggeration #fear #go #humility #limits

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth. ↗

— E.L. Doctorow

#bias #fairness #ridicule #satire #truth

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#entirely #held #his #husband #influence

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. ↗

— William Blake

#eyes #green #imagination #itself #joy

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule. ↗

— David Byrne

#objects #often #ridicule #sheds #suburban

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confronting-problems #degrading #demeaning #equal #equality

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. ↗

— André Gide

#fear #ridicule #cowardice

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

— Oscar Wilde

#mediocrities #paid #ridicule #tribute

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth. ↗

— William Warburton

#ridicule #test #truth

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#forms #government #hereditary #monarchy #present