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
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
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
PLAUTUS
Persa
Every vice is a disgrace to a rational being.
NOAH WEBSTER
attributed, Day's Collacon
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"
It is not the blow that rouses anger but the disgrace.
DEMOSTHENES
In Mediam
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
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
AMERICAN PROVERB
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
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
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
PHAEDRUS
Fables
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
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
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