Disgrace Quotes · Page 6

I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.

— Diana Rigg

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome.…

— Ouida

The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.

— Horatio Nelson

I'll not have my grandson subjected to the humiliation of his reading becoming public. We have to cope with this disgrace discreetly…

— Brandon Mull

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.

— William Shakespeare

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and…

— Philip Sidney

I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are…

— Martti Ahtisaari

When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care,…

— Adolf Hitler

Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent condition as minors under his government ... For a man to…

— Ed Buckner

In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in…

— Benjamin Franklin

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my…

— Agnes Smedley

Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to…

— William Hazlitt

You see that someone in an unexpected place. You lock eyes and feel like a disgrace. You've honestly thought you've got over…

— Jade Surette

My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is…

— Brennan Manning

Never does sin so reign in the Church or State, as when it has gained reputation,or, at least, is no disgrace to…

— Richard Baxter

Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural…

— Zhuangzi

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

Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let…

— Daniel Berrigan

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune…

— John Grisham

If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish…

— Norman Maclean

People will talk about your disgrace forever. To the honored, dishonor is worse than death.

— Kevin

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore…

— Laozi

America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace.

— Jimmy Webb

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

— Albert Camus

“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

Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football.…

— Eamon Dunphy

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

— Benjamin E. Mays

Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the…

— Epictetus

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

— Philip K. Dick

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

— Thomas Browne

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

— Samuel Johnson

Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint…

— Wallace Tripp

“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

Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and…

— Peter Stone

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name…

— Robert Walpole

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

— Sigmund Freud

It's a disgrace that we have to let our international players go to national teams and we don't receive any compensation.

— Joan Laporta