Disgrace Quotes

• In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. You can’t pick up a page. All the words slide off.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Talent

• Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Spirit
  • Honor
  • Greatness

• When you fail, you disgrace yourself and others. When you succeed, be proud and others will be proud for you.

  

  Anthony Swofford
  • Proud
  • Succeed
  • Fail

• “It's a disgrace to us all! he almost screamed. 'We're letting them take us to our death like sheep to the slaughter!.....at least we could break out of the ghetto, or at least die honourably, not as a stain on the face of history!”

  

  Wladyslaw Szpilman
  • History
  • Die
  • Disgrace

• You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.

  

  Edmund Vance Cooke
  • Smiling
  • Disgrace
  • Beaten

• Praise and disgrace cause fear.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Fear
  • Praise
  • Disgrace

• A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.

  

  Caroline Norton
  • Suffering
  • Facts
  • Disgrace

• If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Humble
  • Praise
  • Disgrace

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

  

  Sydney Smith
  • Poverty
  • Disgrace
  • Inconvenient

• But ah, to fish with a worm, and then not catch your fish! To fail with a fly is no disgrace: your art may have been impeccable, your patience faultless to the end. But the philosophy of worm-fishing is that of results, of having something tangible in your basket when the day's work is done.

  

  Bliss Perry
  • Philosophy
  • Results
  • Fail

• To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • King
  • Misfortunes
  • Disgrace

• It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.

  

  George Madison Adams
  • Opportunity
  • inspirational
  • Disgrace

• Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.

  

  Wallace Tripp
  • People
  • Book
  • Happens

• In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

  

  Sophocles
  • Darkness
  • Ashamed
  • Disgrace

• Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

  

  Rex Stout
  • Catastrophe
  • Disgrace

• Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.

  

  John Murray
  • Money
  • Programs
  • Disgrace

• The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Country
  • Crosses
  • Absolutes

• America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace.

  

  Jimmy Webb
  • National
  • Disgrace
  • Justice System

• That was a pretty fine Army that we had in 1965. By 1973, it was in tatters. It was a disgrace to the country and to itself, to its own heritage, really. So it's, you know, the Army belongs to all 307 million of us. It is our common possession, it's our common heritage. As goes the Army, so goes the republic.

  

  Rick Atkinson
  • Common
  • Heritage
  • Disgrace

• The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Past
  • Creature
  • Disgrace

• Being a reporter is one of the noblest things you can do in life. Letting the people know. It's really a holy cause. Time after time after time, in the middle of corruption and disgrace and bad politics, I've seen people come through and do for people. I write about someone in trouble and someone else rallies to help them. Through reporting, things can change.

  

  Celestine Sibley
  • People
  • Writing
  • Helping

• The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory of relativity, as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist. The Einstein theory is a fallacy. The theory that ether does not exist, and that gravity is not a force but a property of space can only be described as a crazy vagary, a disgrace to our age.

  

  Charles Lane Poor
  • Age
  • Science
  • Crazy

• If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.

  

  Stephen Dillane
  • Actor
  • Profession
  • Convinced

• I'll not have my grandson subjected to the humiliation of his reading becoming public. We have to cope with this disgrace discreetly.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Public
  • Humiliation
  • Disgrace

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