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Andre-Francois Deslandes
I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two are as near one another as extreme wisdom and folly.
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Andre-Francois Deslandes
I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two are as near one another as extreme wisdom and folly.
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Dorothy Parker
I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Dorothy Parker
I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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George Crabbe
Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule; Lucy saw no such virtue in a jest, Truth was with her of ridicule the test.
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George Crabbe
Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule; Lucy saw no such virtue in a jest, Truth was with her of ridicule the test.
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Horace
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
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Horace
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
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Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. [Lat., Ridiculum acri fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res.]
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Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. [Lat., Ridiculum acri fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res.]
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Hugh Blair
It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, is perfectly bombast.
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Hugh Blair
It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, is perfectly bombast.
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Jean Francois Marmontel
Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.]
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Jean Francois Marmontel
Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.]
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Paul Klee
One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
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Paul Klee
One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
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