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While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.


Andrea Dworkin


#among #called #especially #fact #gossip

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.


Arthur Bremer


#dozens #dress #fifteen #fifteen minutes #high

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.


Victor Hugo


#down #dragged #either #individual #lift

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.


Martin Farquhar Tupper


#common people #cowards #dread #empty #laugh

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.


Horace Walpole


#avoid #before #dancing #day #graces

The devil's happy when the critics run you off.


Criss Jami


#certainty #confidence #criticism #critics #determination

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.


Winona Ryder


#automatically #become #cynical #how #indication

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.


Justina Chen


#ridicule #beauty

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.


André Gide


#fear #ridicule #cowardice

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






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