DISGRACE QUOTES

quotations about disgrace

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch


Disaster and disgrace
The king has lost his crown
Suddenly he's clumsy like a clown
The world is upside down
The king has lost his crown

ABBA

"The King Has Lost His Crown", Voulez-Vous


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

Disturbed about Man


Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

PLAUTUS

Persa


I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and three or more become a congress.

PETER STONE

1776


Every vice is a disgrace to a rational being.

NOAH WEBSTER

attributed, Day's Collacon


It is not the blow that rouses anger but the disgrace.

DEMOSTHENES

In Mediam


There are two ways of doing battle against Disgrace. You may live it down; or you may run away from it and hide. The first method is heart-breaking, but sure. The second cannot be relied upon because of the uncomfortable way Disgrace has of turning up at your heels.

EDNA FERBER

"The Man Who Came Back"


No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

AMERICAN PROVERB


It is better to die than preserve life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life only pains a moment, but disgrace every day of one's life.

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya


For that which is a disgrace to human nature, throws something of a shade over all the human character, and each individual feels his share of the wound that is given to the whole.

THOMAS PAINE

The Crisis


Do I, or not, deserve such treatment? If I do, then it is not a disgrace, but a judgment. If I do not, then it is for him to blush who has treated me unjustly.

SENECA

De Constantia Sapientis


That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

PHAEDRUS

Fables


I remembered my mother's insistence that I always wear clean underwear because I might get knocked down by a car on the way to or from school and I and the family would be disgraced even beyond the grave, presumably, if my underwear was dirty.

JAMES BALDWIN

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone


A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

LUCIUS ACCIUS

attributed, Daily Bread for Your Mind and Soul


Senseless is he who fain would match himself
Against a stronger, for of victory
He's shorn, and to disgrace adds suffering.

HESIOD

Works and Days


The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

XUN KUANG

Xunzi


If my yesterday is a disgrace
Tell me that you still recall my name

LIGHTS

"Cactus in the Valley"


The thought of disgrace never touched her. She had no world whose verdict she might fear.

MRS. HORACE FIELD

Anchorage


Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

VITTORIO ALFIERI

Antigone