Disgraceful Quote by Horatio Nelson Download Open image “To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding.” — Horatio Nelson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disgraceful Learning Made Understanding Use War
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse,… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
When I follow my own head, I am, in general, much more correct in my judgment than following the opinion of others. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think it is disgraceful. I think it is completely disgusting that you've got a candidate for prime minster who seems to think that… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony that one first despises God, and then fears men." It is not possible more happily to describe its horrible, disgusting, and abandoned nature; for can we imagine anything more vile than to be cowards with regard to men,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
Our mandate in Habitat for Humanity is to work diligently to help bring into being graceful communities, towns, and cities. his is so important… — Millard Fuller Copy Share Image
You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
What's disgraceful is that any Tom, Dick and Harry can open up a clinic and administer Botox. — Stacey Solomon Copy Share Image
I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America. — Bert Williams Copy Share Image
If the players aren't getting paid, there's something terribly, terribly wrong, and that's true only in the United States. Everywhere else, where money is… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
