Top 36 Quotes About Ignominy: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Ignominy

#1. Ignominy thirsts for consideration.

#2. Each time he uttered the word 'Monsieur' in his mild, compassionable voice, the man's face lighted up. The courtesy, to the ex-convict, was like fresh water to a shipwrecked man. Ignominy thirsts for respect.

Victor Hugo

#3. Skepticism was a drug for him. Life's vicissitudes had taught him never to be caught without it. A most useful drug, it magically invigorated his heart, transforming opprobrium into piety and ignominy into tolerance.

Juan Filloy

#4. One has to live with the ignominy of a garish sticker slapped over one's face, proclaiming '?

Michael Heseltine

#5. You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison.
Fine. I don't you like you, either.

N.K. Jemisin

#6. Thus the negro transmits the eternal mark of his ignominy to all his descendants; and although the law may abolish slavery, God alone can obliterate the traces of its existence.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#7. We broke camp together and set off in our opposite directions: we of the XIIth and our allies marched east, towards the rising sun, combat and honour; the IVth went west, to the setting sun, to ignominy and a wealth of digging. We sang as we marched. They did not.

M.C. Scott

#8. We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

Louis Kronenberger

#9. One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

Gustave Flaubert

#10. Like all the men of Babylon, I have been proconsul; like all, I have been a slave. I have known omnipotence, ignominy, imprisonment.

Jorge Luis Borges

#11. That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

William Butler Yeats

#12. Ignominy thirsts for respect.

Victor Hugo

#13. Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the ignominy that would be the result if the attempt was abandoned.

Iain Pears

#14. The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#15. The guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#16. At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

Robert Walser

#17. Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

John Milton

#18. Laugh at tyrants and the tragedy they inflict. Such men welcome our tears as evidence of subservience, but our laughter condemns them to ignominy.

Dean Koontz

#19. Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#20. there is a limit of ignominy, beyond which man's consciousness of shame cannot go, and after which begins satisfaction in shame?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#21. Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.

Thomas Keneally

#22. You are insignifiant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison.
Fine. I don't like you, either.

N.K. Jemisin

#23. 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

#24. For our sin God had visited our bodies with the gruesome ignominy of rot and decay, there was no indignity in the same body's receiving

Thomas Mann

#25. After they stopped torturing him they locked him in the jail cell again and pretended they would forget him ... Then, eventually, and unexpectedly, release. Into ignominy, oblivion, married life.

Salman Rushdie

#26. We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla is a social reformer, who takes up arms responding to the angry protests of the people against their oppressors, and who fights to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and poverty.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#27. I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

Thomas Browne

#28. Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

Victor Hugo

#29. You who are Prejudice, Abuse, Ignominy, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, beware of the wide-eyed urchin. He will grow up.

Victor Hugo

#30. I will not light myself on fire to keep you warm.

Lily Paradis

#31. You can see wealth in people no matter what they're wearing. It's in the cut of their chins, a certain gloss to the skin, a drag and pause to their responsiveness. When poor people hear a loud noise, they whip their heads around. Wealthy people finish their sentences, then just glance back.

Ottessa Moshfegh