Disgrace Quotes
306 Disgrace quotes by 243 unique authors
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He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for…
— Craig Ferguson
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Her mother was my wife," the Count roared, loudest of all. "You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the…
— William Goldman
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While I was looking the other way your fire went out Left me with cinders to kick into dust What a waste of the wonder…
— Kristin Cashore
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If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.
— Norman Maclean
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Blue Face Disgusting taste Flush it Shush it Cold disgrace
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an…
— J M Coetzee
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Yet, there was once a king worthy of that name. That king was Arthur. It is paramount disgrace of this evil generation that the name…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that…
— Upton Sinclair
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It would take more than long-stemmed roses to change my view that you're a despicable cowardy custard and a disgrace to a proud family. Your…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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The Master said, “Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not…
— Confucius
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Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.
— Hugh Nibley
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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
— Alexander Hamilton
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I'll not have my grandson subjected to the humiliation of his reading becoming public. We have to cope with this disgrace discreetly -- Grandma Ruth
— Brandon Mull
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I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace.…
— Orson Scott Card
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Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.
— John Grisham
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It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been possible... that you…
— Cassandra Clare
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I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If…
— Mother Teresa
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Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.
— Rex Stout
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That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as…
— Mark Twain
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Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey…
— Emile Durkheim
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The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine!…
— Gustave Flaubert
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A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie’s knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She…
— Libba Bray
Who Wrote These Disgrace Quotes
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