Top 100 Quotes About Reproach
#2. A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.
Jean Racine
#3. must ask for it. "But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him." James 1:5
Connie Bryson
#4. Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
Ted Koppel
#5. If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.
Franz Kafka
#6. A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#7. But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.
Ferdinand Lassalle
#8. If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
Jupiter Hammon
#9. To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Tacitus
#10. Her tone spoke less of nostalgia than reproach, of feelings long coveted and repeated whenever she had the chance.
Cesar Aira
#12. Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.
Matthew Henry
#13. The reproach of a friend should be strictly just, but not too frequent.
Eustace Budgell
#14. But are you not fond of me?" Paris looked up, his eyes full of reproach."Fond of you? Myrina you are my queen. I want you more than I want life itself.
Anne Fortier
#15. Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
Samuel Johnson
#16. Even then Communists would reproach me for speaking of the Negro problem - they called it my racism. But I would answer: Marx is alright, but we need to complete Marx. I felt that the emancipation of the Negro consisted of more than just a political emancipation.
Aime Cesaire
#17. Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch
this declaration of the mastery
of God who, with magnificent irony,
granted me both the gift of books and the night.
Jorge Luis Borges
#18. That one word, my dear Watson, should have told me the whole story had I been the ideal reasoner which you are so fond of depicting. It was evidently a term of reproach."
-Sherlock Holmes-
Arthur Conan Doyle
#19. Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.
James Madison
#20. From being a female sunk below reproach Sophy became rapidly an unconventional girl whose unaffected manners were refreshing in an age of simpers and high flights.
Georgette Heyer
#21. Every night I went to bed promising myself I would tell him
goodbye in the morning and leave. But along with the mornings
always came new reasons to delay that, new places to see. I knew I
was only making excuses for myself, but there was no one to
reproach me, so I figured it was OK.
Danka V.
#22. He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Oscar Wilde
#23. The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#24. Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.
Charles Mackay
#25. Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
Eliza Farnham
#26. The spike heels left a trail of silent reproach in the broadloom.
Petite and lovely as the girl next door, Dusty eschewed manners and bras in a way that complimented her boss's more uptight, corseted approach to life.
James Wilcox
#27. Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.
Benjamin Graham
#28. Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.
Mason Cooley
#29. Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.
Joseph Hall
#30. You may be sure that if you succeed in bringing your audience into the presence of something that affects them, they will not care by what road you brought them there; and they will never reproach you for having excited their emotions in spite of dramatic rules.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#31. How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
Honore De Balzac
#32. Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.
Karl Kraus
#33. Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
#35. Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
Louisa May Alcott
#36. Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.
Elias Hicks
#37. I said it is vainglorious to reproach yourself for lack of omniscience. That is also true of omnipotence. Report in as you can.
Rex Stout
#38. It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same
Irvine Welsh
#40. As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
Samuel Johnson
#41. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde
#42. For the loss of those we have loved there is no alleviation but time and carefully and rationally chosen diversions such as will not cause our heart to reproach us.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#43. He finished the bandage and was examining it critically.
"You know those things are unreliable." His voice held just a touch of reproach.
"Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.
Ilona Andrews
#44. Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.
Lord Chesterfield
#45. No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.
Plato
#46. There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.
Agatha Christie
#47. My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.
Kojo Annan
#48. The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?
Jef I. Richards
#49. They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.
John Milton
#50. People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.
Jon Favreau
#51. The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.
William Safire
#52. It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.
Charles Horton Cooley
#53. I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.
Chief Seattle
#54. So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
Bayard Taylor
#55. When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.
Sophocles
#56. 'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.
Thomas Huxley
#57. The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy for Islam. The myth was invented by Jews in nineteenth-century Europe as a reproach to Christians.
Bernard Lewis
#58. I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.
Theodore Roosevelt
#59. There was no word for self-pity in the language of the north-east of Scotland - the nearest being a word which is defined in the Scots dictionary as being 'a term used to express self-reproach on paying too much for something.
Alexander McCall Smith
#61. Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle.
#62. But a note had had been prepared and left for her, written in the very style to touch
a small mixture of reproach with a great deal of kindness
Jane Austen
#63. When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#64. To admonish is better than to reproach for admonition is mild and friendly, but reproach is harsh and insulting; and admonition corrects those who are doing wrong, but reproach only convicts them.
Epictetus
#65. It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.
Henry David Thoreau
#66. Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!
William Blake
#67. The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them." But
Murray Leinster
#68. He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
Thucydides
#69. The great reproach always brought against Rabelais is not the want of reserve of his language merely, but his occasional studied coarseness, which is enough to spoil his whole work, and which lowers its value.
Francois Rabelais
#70. Fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#71. I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.
Claire Denis
#72. Truly said, We've talked to people, Mr. Cole. You've an outstanding reputation for diligence, and your integrity is above reproach.
Robert Crais
#73. I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of this crisis, is a question of his strength.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#74. Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.
Henry David Thoreau
#75. We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
Anatole France
#76. One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.
P.G. Wodehouse
#77. Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes," he said with gentle reproach. "Much as I love you, I cannot permit you to maul this particular coat.
Georgette Heyer
#78. Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.
Blaise Pascal
#79. If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the shame and reproach will be very great.
Gerard De Ridefort
#80. Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
Anonymous
#81. Everyone is silent, under the spell of the song. But it is strange: that desperate sorrow and that bitter reproach with which it throbs are sweeter than the most sublime, most passionate joy.
Ivan Bunin
#82. When you become worthy of people's worship, you will be able to attain moksha (liberation), you cannot go to moksha just like that. Reproach (criticism) by people is the cause of a life in the lower realms.
Dada Bhagwan
#83. There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune.
Anton Chekhov
#84. Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.
Honore De Balzac
#85. You have ability and people who don't never forgive you for it. Your very existence is a constant reproach to them.
H. Beam Piper
#86. Is it a reproach on the form of our discipleship that the exhibition of actual suffering for Jesus on the part of those who walk in His steps always provokes astonishment as at the sight of something very unusual?
Charles M. Sheldon
#88. Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#89. Certainly every historian brings certain predilections to the study of history. But every historian also has the ethical obligation to suspend judgment until finding the evidence overwhelmingly persuasive, the method beyond reproach, the results replicable, and the analyses sound.
George M. Dennison
#90. The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.
Thomas Jefferson
#91. It would be wise to be concerned about the introvert who is deprived of solitude. Is she neglecting herself due to depression? Is she falling victim to guilt and self-reproach? Does she feel cut off from pleasure? Does she feel dead?
Laurie A. Helgoe
#92. How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.
Beth Richardson Gutcheon
#93. What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.
David Hume
#94. General Dempsy despaired. The prophecies were impossible to argue since no proof could be offered to discredit them. They were sacred and above reproach.
Brian Rathbone
#95. What God has divided, let us never try to unite, but as Christ went without the camp, bearing His reproach, so let us come out from the ungodly, and be a peculiar people.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#96. Despite her self-reproach, she envied Anna, that she could do what Alice couldn't - keep her children safe from harm. Anna would never have to sit opposite her daughter, her firstborn, and watch her struggle to comprehend the news that she would someday develop Alzheimer's.
Lisa Genova
#97. I must do what my conscience bids. I have borne long with self-reproach that would have roused any mind less torpid and cowardly than mine.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#98. The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
Aleister Crowley
#99. There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness.
Joseph Addison
#100. Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.
Thomas A Kempis
