Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.]

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.

I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies very ridiculous!" God has granted it to me.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.