Top 35 Ridiculed Quotes

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they’re a part of what we do.

I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn’t care.

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

Look, they ridiculed Jesus Christ, so I’m certainly no exception.

I couldn’t find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

Everything that I was ridiculed for as a child – being too feminine or wearing a dress – has made my life fabulous now.

Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they’re usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there’s a sort of ‘us versus them’ situation. They’re easy to poke fun at.

When you’ve been ridiculed and talked about as much as I have over the course of my career, pressure doesn’t exist.

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher’s pet.

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents – they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who they were.

Reagan’s defense buildup and SDI, so ridiculed at the time, pressed Gorbachev, while his economy was collapsing, to make arms deals and improve relations with the West, which contributed to the unraveling of his empire.

Most people, when they hear the disease name, it’s all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

I’m used to seeing women being degraded, slut shamed, harassed for what they look like. Even the most powerful women in the world are measured by their appearance and constantly ridiculed for it.

Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?

Our officers are on the front lines – the first to show up on the scene of a crime. They should be respected; not ridiculed. They and their families protected; not put at risk.

I was being ridiculed for going to school… But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene… They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n’ roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.

It never bothered me that people made fun of my passion for gold… I would never feel bad when people ridiculed me for my fascination with gold.

Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists.

Stereotyped as convention-going, pocket-protector-wearing, chess-playing, infrequently-showering types, nerds are one of our society’s most ridiculed groups. And, for a university with an international reputation as a bastion of intellectualism, Harvard is startlingly devoid of them.

I couldn’t be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you’re ridiculed.

When I started wearing makeup, my parents….. were like, ‘You’re absolutely not wearing it out of the house.’ At first, I thought they were not happy with me wearing it, but later on, I realized it was out of fear of me getting bullied and ridiculed in school.

When I was young, I read the Bible, and I already knew what it meant to be the good guy – and look what happened to Jesus. So, I already understood that you get ridiculed for telling the truth, and I’ve always been aware of that. But, I’m a guy with confidence, and I’m not afraid.

I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don’t even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed.

In 1981, when I went down to visit Georgia Tech, I watched Michael Jordan play and literally get ridiculed for taking a jump shot in the championship game that went off the backboard, and they won. People are forgetting that Michael was just one of the players when they went to the Dream Team.

If I book a table at a pub, or I’ve got an appointment at an optician’s or something, I’ll walk in and I’ll say, ‘This is Tom Jones here,’ And they’ll go ‘Awww, I thought it was gonna be him.’ They think it’s gonna be the real guy. I’ve been ridiculed a lot throughout my life for it.

Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.

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.

We can all accept criticism of creative work, but to be publicly ridiculed for it is incredibly difficult to deal with.

I’ve had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that’s OK with me. I don’t feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

I don’t mind being ridiculed – well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes – it’s all very ephemeral; it doesn’t really matter what people think of me.