Ridiculous Quotes - Page 7

• I know the GOP is called the stupid party, but the idea that Republicans can have the Confederate flag hung around their neck is ridiculous! It's a Democrat flag! The flags - states that seceded during the Civil War were all Democrat states. That's their flag. The slave states were Democrat states! The racist states until the 1960s were Democrat states!

  Sean Hannity

  War, Stupid, Party

  Fuente: www.foxnews.com

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• How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?

  Mark Steyn

  Black, President, Slavery

  Fuente: www.foxnews.com

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• Now, I’m not even saying that girls shouldn’t have princesses in their lives, the archetype in and of itself is not innately wrong, but there should be more options to choose from. So that was my intent, to demonstrate how ridiculous it is to paint an entire gender of heroes with one superficial brush.

  David Trumble

  Niña, Princesa, Héroe

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• It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?

  Trisha Goddard

  Phones, Television, Picks

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• ¿Qué producirá este fanfarrón digno de este bocazas? Las montañas están de parto; nacerá un ridículo ratón.
  [Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
  Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]

  Horace

  Mountain, Born, Produce

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• He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.

  Horace

  Mistake, Same Mistakes

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• To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, He Man, Ridicule

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe John Stuart Blackie (1883). "La sabiduría de Goethe", Edimburgo, W. Blackwood

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• So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and intuitions, he will always produce something worth while and natural. Directly he takes himself too seriously and begins for the alleged benefit of humanity an elaborate dissection of complexes, he evolves a book that is more ridiculous and tiresome than the most conventional cold cream girl novel of yesterday.

  Willa Cather

  Girl, Book, Character

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.59, U of Nebraska Press

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• La credulidad es siempre un defecto ridículo, a menudo peligroso: ha hecho de muchos hombres inteligentes, tontos; y de muchos hombres buenos, bribones.

  Frances Wright

  Clever, Men, Good Man

  Frances Wright (1831). “A Few Days in Athens: Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum”, p.31

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• It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Courage, Criminals, Action

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• The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous enough to observe the hauteur with which the old nobility look down on the new. The reason of this puzzled me a little, until I began to reflect that most titles are respectable only because they are old; if new, they would be despised, because all those who now admire the grandeur of the stream would see nothing but the impurity of the source.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Foundation, Titles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). "Observaciones sobre los talentos de Lord Byron y las tendencias de Don Juan".

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• Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Character, Half, Tongue

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.158

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• Hace tiempo que el nivelador se considera un ser ridículo y quimérico que, si pudiera terminar su trabajo hoy, tendría que empezarlo de nuevo mañana.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Equality, Long Ago, Tomorrow

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• To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

  William Hazlitt

  Writing, Pedants, Faults

  William Hazlitt (2015). "Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)", p.1500, Delphi Classics.

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• Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Pride, Thinking

  William Hazlitt (2015). "Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)", p.1466, Delphi Classics.

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• That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Distance, Character, Order

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.79

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• El más ridículo de todos los animales es un sacerdote orgulloso; no puede utilizar sus propias herramientas sin cortarse los dedos.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Orgullo, Corte, Animal

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). "Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Dirigido a los que piensan", p.74

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• El picor es un mal mezquino, inconfesable, ridículo; uno puede compadecerse de quien lo sufre ; quien quiere rascarse hace reír.

  André Gide

  Mean, Laughing, Suffering

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• There's no such thing as post-feminism. It's like saying post-democracy, excuse me, what does that mean? We're nowhere near equality, so the very idea of post-feminism is ridiculous. The same people who 30-40 years ago said the women's movement is not necessary, 'it's going against nature, my wife is not interested' [are] the same people now saying 'well it used to be necessary but not anymore.' The very invention of the word post-feminism is the current form of resistance.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Years, Ideas

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• The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people; a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?

  May Sarton

  People, Naked, Would Be

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.

  Henry Fielding

  Vices, Faults, Pity

  Henry Fielding (1821). “The novels of Henry Fielding ... complete in one volume. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the life of the author [by sir W. Scott].”, p.5

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• Lo que la caricatura es en la pintura, lo es lo burlesco en la escritura; y de la misma manera el escritor cómico y el pintor se correlacionan entre sí; así como en la primera, el pintor parece tener la ventaja, en la segunda está infinitamente del lado del escritor. Pues lo monstruoso es mucho más fácil de pintar que de describir, y lo ridículo de describir que de pintar.

  Henry Fielding

  Writing, Sides, Painting

  Henry Fielding (1902). "Historia de las aventuras de Joseph Andrews y su amigo el Sr. Abraham Adams".

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• The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Foolish, Folly

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.156

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• Toda la dignidad del hombre consiste en el pensamiento. El pensamiento es, pues, por naturaleza, algo maravilloso e incomparable. Debe tener extraños defectos para ser despreciable. Pero los tiene, de modo que nada es más ridículo. ¡Qué grande es en su naturaleza! ¡Qué vil es en sus defectos! Pero, ¿qué es este pensamiento? ¡Qué tonto es!

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Strange, Dignity

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou become vain: the suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

  Francis Quarles

  Laughter, Heart, Wrinkles

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.56

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