Reproach Quotes

126 Reproach quotes by 108 unique authors

Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women. — Samuel Johnson
The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we… — Stephane Mallarme
We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will… — Theodore Roosevelt
I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from… — Theodore Roosevelt
Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not the true heart… — James Anthony Froude
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. — Anatole France
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor… — Aleister Crowley
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity. — Robert E. Lee
I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's… — John Mayer
Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it. — Joyce Meyer
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it. — Tacitus
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. — Oscar Wilde
You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its… — Charles Dickens
Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and… — Jorge Luis Borges
Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes,"… — Georgette Heyer
I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a… — Markus Zusak
Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach… — Diana Gabaldon
I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for… — Franz Kafka
Again, Rayford slid to the ground, raising his arms. "My Lord and my God, I am so unworthy." "And you, Rayford, who once were alienated… — Tim LaHaye
...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for… — Milan Kundera
You may be sure that if you succeed in bringing your audience into the presence of something that affects them, they will not care by… — Alexis de Tocqueville
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny… — John Stuart Mill
He finished the bandage and was examining it critically. "You know those things are unreliable." His voice held just a touch of reproach. “Eleven out… — Ilona Andrews
Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man… — Homer

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