Disgrace Quotes

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

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.

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

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

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

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

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

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power

Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races.

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.

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

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family."

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.

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.

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.

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

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our rule of laws.

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

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

It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message? You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

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

There is no disgrace in staying behind, not when it's the right thing.

Never does sin so reign in the Church or State, as when it has gained reputation,or, at least, is no disgrace to the sinner,nor is a matter od offence to we who behold it.

An untidy, badly run house will ruin any marriage and is a disgrace to any intelligent woman.

Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace.

Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.

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

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.

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

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

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

Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.

What's going on in our country right now is a disgrace. The Hillary Clinton documents released by WikiLeaks make more clear than ever just how much is at stake on November the 8th.

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

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

Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.

The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.

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

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

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

Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it.

We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.

The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.