Ridicule (1996) - Quotes

The Fear of Ridicule in Reasoning

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?

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Attribution of a Historical Quote

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: [[Napoleon I; [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord] * ] to Abbé du Pradt, at Warsaw. See Histoire de l'Ambassade dans la Grande Duché de Vasovie, Ed. 2, p. 219. Attributed also to ] (traced from Napoleon to Paine, Paine to Blair).

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From Sublime to Ridiculous in One Step

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: * There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

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The Fine Line Between Sublime and Ridiculous

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.

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Wisdom from Hoyt's New Cyclopedia

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: [[Jean-François Marmontel] * ], Œuvres Complettes (1787), V, 188.

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The Intersection of Ridiculous and Sublime

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: * Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime.

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The Intersection of Ridicule and the Sublime

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: En géneral, le ridicule touche au sublime.

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The Nature of Satire in Literature

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: [[Horace] * ], Satires, Book I. 10. 14.

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The Power of Ridicule Over Acrimony

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: * Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

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The Strength of Sharp Wit

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res.

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The Importance of Practical Quotations

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: [[Bernard Le Bouvier de Fontenelle] * ], Œuvres, Dialogues des Morts (1683), IV. 32. Ed. 1825. Used by Edward, Lord Oxford, Ms. Common Place Book.

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The Proximity of Ridiculous and Magnificent

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: * There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

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The Fine Line Between Magnificence and Ridicule

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: L'on ne saurait mieux faire voir que le magnifique et le ridicule sont si voisins qu'ils se touchent.

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Reflections on Great Men and Humor

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: [[Raymond Deslaudes] * ], Reflexions sur les Grands Hommes qui sont morts en Plaisantant.

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Distrust in Sentiments Blended with Ridicule

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: 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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Reflections on the Nature of Discourse

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge; [Christoph Martin Wieland] * ], Table Talk (Jan. 20, 1834). ], Abdereiten, III, Chapter XII.

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The Sublime and the Absurd in Contrast

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.

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Analysis of Lucan's Stylistic Approach

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: [[Hugh Blair; [Longinus] * ]. Commenting on Lucan's style. Borrowed from ], Treatise on the Sublime, Section III.

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The Challenge of Heightened Expression

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: 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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Reflections on Reason and Its Challenges

Quotes: [[Thomas Paine] * ], The Age of Reason, Part II (1795).

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The Fine Line Between Sublime and Ridiculous

Quotes: The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.

Reflections on Spiritual Growth and Exploration

Quotes: [[Anthony de Mello] * ], Wellsprings : A Book of Spiritual Exercises (1985), p. 19.

The Nature of Spiritual Exercises

Quotes: * Wellsprings : A Book of Spiritual Exercises (1985), p. 19

The Cost of Aspiring to Teach

Quotes: [[Truth] I wish to become a teacher of the ]." "Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-five?" "I am. But tell me: What will happen after I am forty-five?" "You will have grown accustomed to it.

The Weight of Words in Expression

Quotes: [[George Crabbe] * ], Tales of the Hall (1819), Book VIII, line 126.

The Test of Truth and Ridicule

Quotes: 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.

Reflections on Satire and Society

Quotes: [[Thomas Carlyle] * ], Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855), Voltaire.

The Meaning Behind Ridicule as Truth

Quotes: We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth.

Reflections on Human Nature and Satire

Quotes: [[Ambrose Bierce] * ], The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

The Nature of Ridicule and Its Impact

Quotes: RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them. It may be graphic, mimetic or merely rident. Shaftesbury is quoted as having pronounced it the test of truth -- a ridiculous assertion, for many a solemn fallacy has undergone centuries of ridicule with no abatement of its popular acceptance. What, for example, has been more valorously derided than the doctrine of Infant Respectability?