Dishonour Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dishonour Inspirational Love Ridicule
Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick — Jeanne Birdsall Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, wherea man is dishonoured by… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will… — Allan Pinkerton Copy Share Image
Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you in the back of the head. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“I should like to caution you agains the perils of an exercise marked by an exchange of verbiage even in poetic language. But, in… — PN Haksar Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Now, we are agreed, I and my destinies. The total world, Above, below, whate'er is seen or known, And all that men, and all… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
“To all ladies who like offering sex to a man in the first few weeks of dating, this is what happens: Once he penetrates… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“It's a matter of dishonour, and when it gets out, which it's bound to, this will be the one act you'll be remembered for.… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one… — William Blake Copy Share Image
If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they… — Plato Copy Share Image
Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“Don't let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
