quotations about disgrace
'Tis better to enjoy small means in secret,
Than great wealth openly, but with disgrace.
MENANDER
fragment, Fabulae Incertae
The rabble, as of old, truckles to success, and hates a favourite in disgrace.
LATIN PROVERB
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
Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Richelieu
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
Act with propriety, and disgrace will keep far from you.
CHUNG YEW
attributed, Day's Collacon
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
MALCOLM X
attributed, Teaching Malcolm X
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
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
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
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
But shall we call those noble, who disgrace
Their lineage, proud of an illustrious race?
JUVENAL
Satires
There should be no disgrace in being human, that is what I believe.
ANDREW NEFF
The Mind Game Company
There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
If the gods do anything disgraceful, they are not gods.
J. BERRY
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Lack of moderation is the father of disgrace.
YORUBA PROVERB
Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences, and we only care what opinion is held of us because of the people who form that opinion, it follows that the people before whom we feel shame are those whose opinion of us matters to us.
ARISTOTLE
Rhetoric
Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.
OUIDA
attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations