Dishonoured Quotes

#1. You're dishonoured, somehow. You've sinned. Sinned against the aspidistra."
"You talk a great deal about aspidistras," said Ravelston.
"They're a dashed important subject," said Gordon.

George Orwell

#2. When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house-hold God, as well as a heavenly one; He has an altar in every man's dwelling.

John Ruskin

#3. It is he who endured every kind of suffering in all those who foreshadowed him. In Abel he was slain, in Isaac bound, in Jacob exiled, in Joseph sold, in Moses exposed to die. He was sacrificed in the Passover lamb, persecuted in David, dishonoured in the prophets.

Anonymous

#4. Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, wherea man is dishonoured by not resenting an affront, and utterly ruined by resenting it.

Lord Chesterfield

#5. Margrethe: And when all our eyes are closed, when even the ghosts have gone, what will be left of our beloved world? Our ruined and dishonoured and beloved world?

Michael Frayn

#6. Robert, men can love what is beneath them - things unworthy, stained, dishonoured. We women worship when we love; and when we lose our worship, we lose everything.

Oscar Wilde

#7. [The proposed establishment] will have a ... tendency to banish our Citizens ... To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by revoking the liberty which they now enjoy, would be the same species of folly which has dishonoured and depopulated flourishing kingdoms.

James Madison

#8. A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.

Henry James

#10. The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word.

John Newton

#11. We always felt like we were throwing a party for our friends, regardless of the size or the place, because we actually were throwing a party for our friends. We've always had a very tight knit community.

Trey Anastasio

#12. What a curious power words have.

Tadeusz Borowski

#13. Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.

Billie-Jo Williams

#14. A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.

Vernon Howard

#15. America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

#16. For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.

Bob Schaffer

#18. Ungrace does its work quietly and lethally, like a poisonous, undetectable gas. A father dies unforgiven. A mother who once carried a child in her own body does not speak to that child for half its life. The toxin steals on, from generation to generation.

Philip Yancey

#19. I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.

Emily Blunt

#20. Tell me a musician who's got rich off digital sales. Apple's doing pretty good though, right?

Prince

#21. Playing Rachmaninoff was like walking on a rope bridge across a gorge with dreamy skies above and a raging, muddy river below.

Ella Leya

#22. That which is imposing here on earth has always something of the quality of the fallen angel who is beautiful but without peace, great in his conceptions and exertions but without succes, proud and lonely.

Otto Von Bismarck

#23. I don't think the western world is questioning capitalism. Capitalism as a concept is not something that society has written off. But today, there is degree of caution around capitalism. We believe in compassionate capitalism. Growth for growth's sake can never be an end in itself.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

#24. By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.

Eknath Easwaran