DISGRACE QUOTES II

quotations about disgrace

'Tis better to enjoy small means in secret,
Than great wealth openly, but with disgrace.

MENANDER

fragment, Fabulae Incertae


The rabble, as of old, truckles to success, and hates a favourite in disgrace.

LATIN PROVERB


To force your presence upon a person in the hour of his disgrace, is like gloating over his misfortune.

PIRKE ABOTH

Sayings of the Fathers


Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

Richelieu


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

WILLIAM COWPER

Hope


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

MALCOLM X

attributed, Teaching Malcolm X


Life is a tug of war
A slap in the face
Life is a tug of war
A total disgrace

RATT

"Tug of War"


Act with propriety, and disgrace will keep far from you.

CHUNG YEW

attributed, Day's Collacon


Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards. If you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.

RONALD REAGAN

attributed, Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations


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.

PLATO

attributed, Day's Collacon


Disgrace is a very powerful deterrent to most men, but the disgrace of punishment is not appreciably increased by making punishments in general more severe.

ALFRED C. EWING

The Morality of Punishment


I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.

DIANA RIGG

Times, May 3, 1999


But shall we call those noble, who disgrace
Their lineage, proud of an illustrious race?

JUVENAL

Satires


And wilt thou still be hammering treachery,
To tumble down thy husband and thyself
From top of honour to disgrace's feet?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry VI, Part II


There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus


If the gods do anything disgraceful, they are not gods.

J. BERRY

attributed, Day's Collacon


There should be no disgrace in being human, that is what I believe.

ANDREW NEFF

The Mind Game Company


Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences, and we only care what opinion is held of us because of the people who form that opinion, it follows that the people before whom we feel shame are those whose opinion of us matters to us.

ARISTOTLE

Rhetoric


Lack of moderation is the father of disgrace.

YORUBA PROVERB


Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.

OUIDA

attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations