Discreditable Quotes

14 quotes by 11 authors

• There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. — Christian Nestell Bovee
• There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of… — Aldous Huxley
• Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property… — Benjamin Disraeli
• Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in… — G. H. Hardy
• The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis;… — Kenny Smith
• Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs… — Arnold J. Toynbee
• plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence. — Ambrose Bierce
• The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and… — H. L. Mencken
• One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act… — H. L. Mencken
• I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can… — Dylan Thomas
• Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone. — H. L. Mencken

Who Wrote These Discreditable Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 14 Discreditable Quotes as follows:

• 3 Discreditable Quotes by H. L. Mencken
• 1 Discreditable Quote by Arnold J. Toynbee
• 1 Discreditable Quote by Ambrose Bierce
• 1 Discreditable Quote by Dylan Thomas
• 1 Discreditable Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee
• 1 Discreditable Quote by Aldous Huxley
• 1 Discreditable Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
• 1 Discreditable Quote by Benjamin Disraeli
• 1 Discreditable Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Discreditable Quote by G. H. Hardy
• 1 Discreditable Quote by Kenny Smith