No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it. — Wilfred Bion Copy Share Image
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It seems that whatever we do is somehow beyond reproach - murder, rape, drunk driving - as long as we go on… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues… — James Madison Copy Share Image
So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“...we really have no right to reproach God for having created the world. For Him it was the only possible way of… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself -- thinks, feels,… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image
I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
There are many who say to the Lord, "I give myself wholly to Thee, without any reserve," but there are few who… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can… — George Will Copy Share Image
I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number;… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
What was it that obliged Jerome to write his book, Concerning Illustrious Men? It was the common reproach of old cast upon… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions. — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach. — Ferdinand Lassalle Copy Share Image
