Best 75 quotes in «disgrace quotes» category

A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.

Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another. [Disgraces are like cherries, one draws another.]

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

Haste to disgrace the traitor. Do not wait 'til later.

Failure is not a disgrace if you have sincerely done your best.

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Praise and disgrace cause fear.

Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.

Same sex marriage is a disgrace to the nation and to God. When I was growing up, ‘ungqingili’ [homosexuals in isiZulu] could not stand in front of me, I would knock him out.

Revenue and wealth do not bring disgrace.

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.

There is no disgrace in peace. There can never be dishonor in peace.

Those who are content suffer no disgrace.

To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

To what will love not stoop!

After you have done a great thing for a great glory, sit and think and understand the journey thereon, for a little mistake can erase a great glory!

An ounce of naivety can earn you many days of shame. An ounce of stupidity can earn you a hundred days of shame. An ounce of insensibility can earn you a thousand days of shame. An ounce of folly can earn you countless days of shame.

A non-reading society is nothing but a miserable society; a non-reading nation will be nothing but a disgrace of all other nations!

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

At the end of the first century of Christian rule, the Colosseum still dominated Rome and the Parthenon towered above Athens. Yet when writers of this period discuss architecture, these aren’t the buildings that impress them. Instead, their admiration is drawn by another structure in Egypt. This building was so fabulous that writers in the ancient world struggled to find ways to convey its beauty. ‘Its splendour is such that mere words can only do it an injustice,’ wrote the historian Ammianus Marcellinus. It was, another writer thought, ‘one of the most unique and uncommon sights in the world. For nowhere else on earth can one find such a building.’ Its great halls, its columns, its astonishing statues and its art all made it, outside Rome, ‘the most magnificent building in the whole world’. Everyone had heard of it. No one has heard of it now. While tourists still toil up to the Parthenon, or look in awe at the Colosseum, outside academia few people know of the temple of Serapis. That is because in AD 392 a bishop, supported by a band of fanatical Christians, reduced it to rubble.

Ci vuole sempre la disgrazia per aprire gli occhi alla gente

Free your life from the fangs of gossips by not associating yourself with them. Anyone who helps you to gossip about someone can also help someone to gossip about you.

Marcie: I know you’re still wounded. Danny, you have to let it go. That is what this mind game is all about, discovering who we are.       Humans lie to themselves all the time. There should be no disgrace in being human, that is what I believe.

Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.

Don't look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be happier for wearing a skin without clothes.