Disgrace famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
-- Ben Hogan -
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 -
If you cry when you're in love, it sure ain't no disgrace.
-- Elvis Presley -
Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.
-- F. F. Bruce -
Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.
-- George Madison Adams -
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
-- Hesiod -
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
-- Horace -
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
-- Horatio Nelson -
Same sex marriage is a disgrace to the nation and to God. When I was growing up, ‘ungqingili’ [homosexuals in isiZulu] could not stand in front of me, I would knock him out.
-- Jacob Zuma -
It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.
-- James Weldon Johnson -
He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.
-- Juvenal -
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
-- Lucius Accius -
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace
-- Malcolm X -
The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.
-- Maltbie Davenport Babcock -
A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.
-- Marcel Carne -
To stumble twice against the same stone is a Proverbsial disgrace.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
-- Milton Berle -
There is no disgrace in peace. There can never be dishonor in peace.
-- Morgan Llywelyn -
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
-- Plautus -
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
-- Plutarch -
Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.
-- Rex Stout -
Love will wash you clean in the nights disgrace.
-- Rickie Lee Jones -
It's no disgrace to be old. But damn if it isn't inconvenient.
-- Moms Mabley
