Reproach Quotes

126 quotes by 110 authors

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice… — Louisa May Alcott
If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the shame and reproach… — Gerard de Ridefort
There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness. — Joseph Addison
He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach. — Thomas Paine
Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you. — Thomas a Kempis
Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize. — Mark Twain
Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more… — Ayn Rand
I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I… — Therese of Lisieux
The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that… — Thomas Jefferson
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity… — John Quincy Adams
The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy… — Bernard Lewis
It is difficult to heal the wound of reproach. — Lucullus
To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is… — William Crookes
A person who sins neither in thought nor deed, and is fair and just, gains enormous courage and strength. As a leader, you need courage… — Konosuke Matsushita
I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is… — Frederick Douglass
It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for… — Thomas Jefferson
What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their… — Alexander Hamilton
Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next. — James Madison

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