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Quotes About Dishonored

Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule and you think the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored. Do you think I will crouch before your Gods, -so new-and tremble? I am far from that.
~ Aeschylus
For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.
~ George Vecsey
If sin is not exposed, named, and renounced, then there has been no justice and God is dishonored.
~ Fleming Rutledge
The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.
~ Louis Aragon
but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and have distilled of your deliverers the most ruinous of all poisons; people hear Beethoven in concert halls, or over a bridge game, or to relax; Cézannes are hung on walls, reproduced, in natural wood frames; van Gogh is the man who cut off his ear and whose yellows became recently popular in window decoration.
~ James Agee