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7 quotesI believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
Ridicule
George Farquhar
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Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
Ridicule
Jean De La Bruyere
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Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.
Ridicule
Franz Grillparzer
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Ridicule
Jane Austen
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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Ridicule
Thomas Jefferson
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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
Ridicule
Sir Walter Scott
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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
Ridicule
Thomas Szasz
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun