Top 100 Quotes About Disgrace
#1. A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.
Marcel Carne
#2. 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.
Plato
#3. It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to act as the ally and agent of a police state in retrieving one of its prisoners.
David Horowitz
#4. No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
Albert Camus
#5. We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years. It's a disgrace. It's an outrage. We must do everything in our power to keep those treaties. Otherwise, the word of the United States government is no good.
John McCain
#7. To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.
Philip Sidney
#8. Courtesy of their tempers, both were now dressed in the Captain Asshole costume - which included, for no extra charge, the cape of disgrace, the booties of shame, and keys to the Fuck Up mobile.
J.R. Ward
#9. Haste to disgrace the traitor. Do not wait 'til later.
Jesse Lacey
#10. How Horrid has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror
puberty, public disgrace
then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.
Alison Bechdel
#11. Such poor liquor do make a man's throat feel very melancholy
and is a disgrace to the name of stimmilent.
Thomas Hardy
#12. The demerits of our own people bringh infamiy. Their disgrace is our own disgrace. That is why infamy os such people relly hurts . It is desifrable that the ruler or the administrator may work in a way that such disgraceful conduct may not occur.
Chanakya
#13. Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.
Karen DeCrow
#14. Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation.
Frances Power Cobbe
#16. A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Sigmund Freud
#17. And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.
Joseph Campbell
#18. It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the U.S., quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.
Geoff Mulgan
#19. The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.
Horatio Nelson
#20. The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace.
Tom Hunter
#21. He painted a rosy picture of prewar Germany in contrast to its current "disgrace and defeat."8 He made complicated things simple. "Political agitation must be primitive," he said.9
Peter Ross Range
#22. That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Hesiod
#24. There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's liberty for a filthy bowl of oatmeal and promise of security by liars.
Charley Reese
#25. 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.
Orson Scott Card
#26. Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
Ben Hogan
#27. The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.
Stephen Ambrose
#28. The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.
Chanakya
#29. There is no disgrace in peace. There can never be dishonor in peace.
Morgan Llywelyn
#30. Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.
Horace
#32. Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#33. While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization,
Margaret Sanger
#34. I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them.
Martti Ahtisaari
#35. At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
Earl Blumenauer
#37. Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome ... no one can disgrace you save yourself.
Ouida
#38. My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
Horatio Nelson
#39. Marcie: I know you're still wounded. Danny, you have to let it go. That is what this mind game is all about, discovering who we are.
Humans lie to themselves all the time. There should be no disgrace in being human, that is what I believe.
Andrew Neff
#40. But some days, he looked as if he'd been up all night drinking, hung over with whatever he'd done in his past, buried beneath guilt and disgrace.
Pepper Winters
#41. There is no disgrace in learning," said Olga Ciavolga. "But caution is a good thing when you travel in the unknown.
Lian Tanner
#42. My love to love is love but to disgrace it,
For I have heard it is a life in death,
That laughs and weeps, and all but with a breath.
William Shakespeare
#43. It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.
Woodrow Wilson
#44. Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent condition as minors under his government ... For a man to torture an animal whose life God has put into his hands, is a disgrace to his species.
Ed Buckner
#45. The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
Christopher Fry
#46. The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity ...
Queen Victoria
#47. My claims were justified in all men's sight; I put my trust in equity and right; Yet, to my horror and the world's disgrace, Justice is mocked, and I have lost my case! A scoundrel whose dishonesty is notorious Emerges from another lie victorious!
Moliere
#48. Those who are content suffer no disgrace.
Laozi
#49. There is no disgrace in staying behind, not when it's the right thing.
Nora Roberts
#50. In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
Sophocles
#51. Then why go through this farce?" "Just like hell has multiple levels, so does disgrace.
Denise Grover Swank
#53. There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
Publilius Syrus
#54. Tom's mind was set to the expectation of the worst that could happen - not death, but disgrace.
George Eliot
#55. His daughters had lived their early life in permanent disgrace for having, none of them, been born a boy.
Anthony Powell
#57. Failing is not a disgrace unless you make it the last chapter of your book.
Jack Hyles
#58. Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.
John Murray
#59. I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people.
Adolf Hitler
#60. The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain
as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.
Gautama Buddha
#62. 'Wicked Nights' is the story of Zacharel, the new leader of the Army of Disgrace - heavenly warriors in danger of falling from grace - and Annabelle, a human who has spent the last four years locked in an institution for the criminally insane.
Gena Showalter
#63. Is love a passionate embrace,
where you grab but cannot taste.
your lustfull urge will surely replace,
that bitter sweet pleasure that only leads to disgrace,
Pierre Blundell
#64. Randy Moss is not a leader. He doesn't deserve to be the captain of the Oakland Raiders. He's the one who said he wanted to be traded. He's not happy. His effort is lacking. That's a disgrace to the uniform. I don't care what uniform you have on.
Boomer Esiason
#65. Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
Billy Connolly
#66. Nowadays people consider it a disgrace to admit that they are not stressed.
Judith Martin
#67. The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.
Rick Perry
#68. My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.
Brennan Manning
#69. A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.
Lord Chesterfield
#70. Free your life from the fangs of gossips by not associating yourself with them. Anyone who helps you to gossip about someone can also help someone to gossip about you.
Israelmore Ayivor
#71. The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#72. Sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy.
Epictetus
#73. Even a wild horse can be tamed; even metal that is difficult to work eventually goes into a mold. If you take it easy and do not stir yourself, you will never make any progress. It has been said, "It is no disgrace to have many afflictions: I would worry if there never were any afflictions."
Zicheng Hong
#74. Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
Plutarch
#75. For whenever we turn away from Christ, we 'are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace' (Heb. 6:6).
John R.W. Stott
#76. The getting that (favour) leads to the apprehension (of losing it), and the losing it leads to the fear of (still greater calamity): - this is what is meant by saying that favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared.
Lao-Tzu
#77. To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.
Lord Chesterfield
#78. I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.
William Cowper
#79. peace is the ultimate goal of all religions but even at the end of this century we continue to see how religion is the cause of much strife, bloodshed and disgrace among human beings. Nothing but the flag of religion can crush human beings and humane emotions so completely.
Taslima Nasrin
#80. from the poem Holographic Personality Disgrace:
Some people are such assholes that saying, "Look, again, I'm sorry I cut off my thumb and glued it to your baby's head because I thought you'd like him better as a unicorn" means nothing to them.
Sam Pink
#81. That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.
Lloyd Kaufman
#82. Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee and you ought to be ashamed to have turned in such preposterous answers!
Calvin: I just don't test well.
Bill Watterson
#83. An ounce of naivety can earn you many days of shame. An ounce of stupidity can earn you a hundred days of shame. An ounce of insensibility can earn you a thousand days of shame. An ounce of folly can earn you countless days of shame.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#84. We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.
Michel De Montaigne
#85. He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.
Craig Ferguson
#86. It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
Plutarch
#87. Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above all the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. They were the bravest champions ...
Homer
#88. It's no disgrace to be old. But damn if it isn't inconvenient.
Moms Mabley
#89. Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
Agnes Smedley
#90. I think the TAC was just a disgrace, a disgrace not only to the [health] department but a disgrace to the whole country. But I think, as South Africa, we really demonstrated that we are doing pretty well.
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
#91. After you have done a great thing for a great glory, sit and think and understand the journey thereon, for a little mistake can erase a great glory!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#92. To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.
Confucius
#93. Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
#94. People say I'm a disgrace to the human race. I love overweight women when they sit on my face.
R.A. The Rugged Man
#95. Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.
Kiki Dee
#97. It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
Benjamin E. Mays
#98. The state of our educational system is a disgrace to our country. We have an elementary and secondary school system in which close to half of the youngsters never graduate properly. It's a disgrace that there is more illiteracy today than there was 100 years ago.
Milton Friedman
#99. It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.
Josh Billings
#100. The final destinations of ignorant people are always the same streets: Street of downfall, street of defeat, street of frustration, street of disgrace!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
