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«Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.»
«THERE are three types of persons: those, who confess their own faults and mention the excellence of others, are the highest type; those, who highlight their own excellence and decry the faults of others, are worse; those, who parade their own faults as excellence and deride the excellence in others as faults, are the worst. The last type is nowadays most rampant.»
«I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.»
«And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.»
«And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.»
«And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.»
«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?»
«The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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appearance, deride, derided, derides, dislike, dread, familiar, first appearance, hence, innovator, innovators, madmen, notions, persecuted, persecutes
«A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.»
«The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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Truth
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attack, Attack of, deride, derided, derides, end, ignorance, incontrovertible, in the end, malice, may, The End, The Truth, truth, under attack
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