Ridiculous

Famous quotes containing the word ridiculous:

“We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)