Fyodor Dostoevsky Ridiculous Quotations

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.