Reproach Quotes

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach

Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.

Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!

There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.

There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.

Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.

The reproach of a friend should be strictly just, but not too frequent.

There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end.

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night.

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.

When people reproach us, they only increase their own failings even as they are disclaiming them.

On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.

When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.

If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it.

One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.

Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.