We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we…

A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.

— Sigmund Freud

As long as one is following the right way, one should never be concerned about the reproaches of those who like to find faults.

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“An emotional outbreak may follow, accompanied by strong, legitimate reproaches, and only after this outbreak will a new link with repressed experience become clear…

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

“The man who reproaches you is unfair; You're a woman and not a saint.”

— Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

— Mason Cooley

Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.

— Anne Frank

“When a woman reproaches a man, but at the same time acts affectionately towards him, she should be made love to in every way. ”

— Vatsayana

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

— Aristotle

What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.

— David Hume

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.

— Nathalie Sarraute

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

— Alfred de Vigny

In Minnesota, we hold our leaders to a higher standard. We demand that the men and women we send to Washington stand above reproach…

— Kurt Bills

I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other…

— Stevie Smith

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

— Geraldine Jewsbury