quotations about disgrace
The rabble, as of old, truckles to success, and hates a favourite in disgrace.
LATIN PROVERB
Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Richelieu
To force your presence upon a person in the hour of his disgrace, is like gloating over his misfortune.
PIRKE ABOTH
Sayings of the Fathers
'Tis better to enjoy small means in secret,
Than great wealth openly, but with disgrace.
MENANDER
fragment, Fabulae Incertae
Life is a tug of war
A slap in the face
Life is a tug of war
A total disgrace
RATT
"Tug of War"
Could he with reason murmur at his case,
Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
WILLIAM COWPER
Hope
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards. If you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.
RONALD REAGAN
attributed, Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
MALCOLM X
attributed, Teaching Malcolm X
I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.
DIANA RIGG
Times, May 3, 1999
Act with propriety, and disgrace will keep far from you.
CHUNG YEW
attributed, Day's Collacon
Disgrace is a very powerful deterrent to most men, but the disgrace of punishment is not appreciably increased by making punishments in general more severe.
ALFRED C. EWING
The Morality of Punishment
There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.
PLATO
attributed, Day's Collacon
There should be no disgrace in being human, that is what I believe.
ANDREW NEFF
The Mind Game Company
And wilt thou still be hammering treachery,
To tumble down thy husband and thyself
From top of honour to disgrace's feet?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry VI, Part II
But shall we call those noble, who disgrace
Their lineage, proud of an illustrious race?
JUVENAL
Satires
Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.
OUIDA
attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations
For if to poverty we add disgrace,
Our poverty will be of double weight.
PLAUTUS
Persa
The disgrace of the city is the fault of the citizens.
AMERICAN PROVERB
If the gods do anything disgraceful, they are not gods.
J. BERRY
attributed, Day's Collacon