Ignominious Quotes
18 quotes by 14 authors
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To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full…
— George Orwell
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Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against…
— Thomas Aquinas
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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
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The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a witness of resurrection…
— William Stringfellow
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The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in…
— H. L. Mencken
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It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer…
— Martin Van Buren
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The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
— H. L. Mencken
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I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a…
— Larry Merchant
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Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify.…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his…
— Herman Melville
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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
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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot…
— George Bernard Shaw
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A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!
— Nicholas A. Basbanes
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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance…
— George Bernard Shaw
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My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death
— Anne Rice
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Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the…
— Martin Jacques
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To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History…
— George Orwell
Who Wrote These Ignominious Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 18 Ignominious Quotes as follows: