Discreditable Quotes

#1. She liked him too much to marry him, that was the point; something told her that she should not be satisfied, and to inflict upon a man who offered so much a wife with a tendency to criticize would be a peculiarly discreditable act.

Henry James

#2. You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

Tom Stoppard

#3. Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in our time are not to bring human history to an abrupt, unpleasant and discreditable end.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#4. Plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#7. But how can I use a method to discredit that very method, if the method is discreditable?

Stanislaw Lem

#8. The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity to say they are sorry is lost.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.

Seneca The Younger

#10. There's nothing discreditable about jealousy, Mr Bendrix. I always salute it as the mark of true love.

Graham Greene

#11. The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis; but in academia there is virtually nothing but noetic minds to be found, and the very idea of gnosis is alien and untranslatable, not to mention discreditable.

Kenny Smith

#12. A good man will not waste himself upon mean and discreditable work or be busy merely for the sake of being busy.

Seneca.

#13. Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.

H.L. Mencken

#15. One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

H.L. Mencken

#16. Morality and honor are not to be confused. The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

H.L. Mencken

#17. To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.

Aldous Huxley

#18. I meant that in politics there may be times when it's expedient to leave someone in power who's become incompetent, because in a web like that, there are ways to circumvent the damage that person might do. But

Kate Elliott

#19. Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them.

John Abizaid

#20. As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new ...

Pema Chodron

#21. There are some things it is best not to repeat. I think I heard most of them in that antenatal class.

Non Pratt

#22. In stories told later, many boys would claim that the girls on Coffin Rock were decorated with chunks of raw turkey, soaked in poultry blood like the chick in fuckin' Carrie, but this was embellishment.

Joe Hill

#23. The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

#24. I do not like 'But yet,' it does allay
The good precedence; fie upon 'But yet'!
'But yet' is as a gaoler to bring forth
Some monstrous malefactor.

William Shakespeare

#25. Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population.

Stan Sakai

#26. Happy is that family where both the husband and wife are mutual members of Christ's body

William Gouge

#27. Overconfidence: As the WYSIATI rule implies, neither the quantity nor the quality of the evidence counts for much in subjective confidence.

Daniel Kahneman

#28. He studied Latin like the violin, because he liked it.

Robert Frost