Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work… — Kiki Dee Copy Share Image
I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Life never always turn out the way you plan but be happy for what you have accomplish — Syntific Copy Share Image
Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation. — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Don't look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and… — Al-Shafi‘i Copy Share Image
This [Magna Carta] has been forced from the King. It constitutes an insult to the Holy See, a serious weakening of the… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image