Disgrace Quotes
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Praise and disgrace cause fear.
Lao Tzu -
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
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“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 -
America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace.
Jimmy Webb -
To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.
Confucius -
When you fail, you disgrace yourself and others. When you succeed, be proud and others will be proud for you.
Anthony Swofford -
The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.
Emily Dickinson -
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
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If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
Mother Teresa -
It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.
George Madison Adams -
In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
Sophocles -
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 -
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 -
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
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Those who are content suffer no disgrace.
Lao Tzu -
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Sigmund Freud -
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Sydney Smith -
Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.
Alfred de Musset -
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 -
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
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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 -
For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
Bernard of Clairvaux -
The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.
Anthony Trollope -
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.
Peter Stone