Disgrace Quotes

306 Disgrace quotes by 243 unique authors

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have… — Agnes Smedley
Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's… — Henry David Thoreau
As a people, we value family, education and success. Hunger is an enemy to all three. Scientific studies have demonstrated that even brief periods of… — Ted Danson
No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow… — Socrates
In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace. — Sophocles
To stumble twice against the same stone is a Proverbsial disgrace. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
People say I'm a disgrace to the human race. I love overweight women when they sit on my face. — Unknown Author
The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a… — Gautama Buddha
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace. — Hesiod
The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy,… — H. L. Mencken
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school. — Christopher Fry
The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those… — Muhammad Ali
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. — Vittorio Alfieri
Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity,… — Joyce Carol Oates
It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient. — James Weldon Johnson
The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our rule… — Paul Laxalt
The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah… — S. J. Perelman
I had the feeling that if I encountered anyone they would intuit my disgrace and would judge me instantly. Nothing is more isolating than having… — Kevin Powers
Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand… — Daniel Berrigan
Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom. — Philip K. Dick
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if… — Martin Luther
There is, however, another subject on which the Queen feels most strongly, and that is this horrible, brutalizing, un-Christian-like vivisection…It must really not be permitted.… — Queen Victoria
Same sex marriage is a disgrace to the nation and to God. When I was growing up, ‘ungqingili’ [homosexuals in isiZulu] could not stand in… — Jacob Zuma
Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity… — Nichiren

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