William Paley Quotes

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

You are a daft race. Begone!

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons.

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

One camel does not make fun of another camel's hump.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule

Frank Williams says I'm nothing but a money-grabber. I can only laugh at that.

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

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.

Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect.

The haters always scream the loudest.

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.