Disgrace Quotes

306 Disgrace quotes by 243 unique authors

The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Haste to disgrace the traitor. Do not wait 'til later. — Jesse Lacey
We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to… — Michel de Montaigne
When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people… — Charles Lamb
It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite. — Saul Bellow
There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace. — Publilius Syrus
To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule. — Lord Chesterfield
For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and… — Desiderius Erasmus
Labor is no disgrace. — Hesiod
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. — Lucius Accius
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. — Horatio Nelson
You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to… — Edmund Vance Cooke
To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace… — Charles Darwin
An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace. — Samuel Johnson
If you cry when you're in love, it sure ain't no disgrace. — Elvis Presley
I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a… — Ronnie Milsap
You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place. — Queen Elizabeth II
Be calm in the face of all common disgraces. — Gordon Lightfoot
Love will wash you clean in the nights disgrace. — Rickie Lee Jones
Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace.… — John McCain
The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we… — Pope Benedict XIV
If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a… — Stephen Dillane
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons… — Frederick Douglass

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