Disgrace Quotes

306 Disgrace quotes by 243 unique authors

As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter… — Horace
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. — Plautus
And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of… — James Russell Lowell
Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace. — William Shakespeare
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old. — Aristotle
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame,… — William Cowper
Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace. — Homer
Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace. — Homer
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. — Hesiod
The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine. — Philip Sidney
The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-. — Emily Dickinson
Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a… — Thucydides
Nowadays people consider it a disgrace to admit that they are not stressed. — Judith Martin
Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God. He does not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
My hope is that the memory of death and disgrace will be so intense that the people of the United States will be able to… — Howard Zinn
The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end… — Confucius
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and… — Paul Bailey
Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked. — Ouida
It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle. — Marcus Aurelius
Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace. — John Kenneth Galbraith
However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced… — William Hazlitt
Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment.… — William Hazlitt
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such… — William Hazlitt
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. — Sigmund Freud

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