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Quotes About Disgrace

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
~ Simon Raven
I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof. 'Tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures, that in a moment can so disfigure us, that our nearest friends, wife, and children, stand afraid and start at us.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
His very mantle was aspersed. In another minute he would stand sodden, inglorious, a mock.
~ Max Beerbohm
However fond an undergraduate be of his womenfolk, at Oxford they keep him in a painful state of tension: at any moment they may somehow disgrace him.
~ Max Beerbohm
Godliness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. PROVERBS 14:34
~ Ben Carson
When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom. Proverbs 11:2
~ Beth Moore
I have a reputation for infamy.
~ Claire Fox
It is a disgrace. I think darts should be at the Olympics. Obviously you'd have to cut out the drinking side of the game. But apart from that there's no reason why it shouldn't be there.
~ Adrian Lewis
Warrior cultures (and warrior leaders) enlist shame, not only as a counter to fear but as a goad to honor. The warrior advancing into battle (or simply resolving to keep up the fight) is more afraid of disgrace in the eyes of his brothers than he is of the spears and lances of the enemy.
~ Steven Pressfield
Trump is a disaster and a disgrace.
~ Stuart Stevens
Shameful, wouldn't you
~ Josephine Cox
La opinión pública, pensó Mallarino. La caída en desgracia. ¿De dónde saldrían esas fórmulas? ¿Quién las habría inventado, quién habría sido el primero en usarlas?
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
We have seen moral and religious leaders, men who claim to be followers of Jesus, fall into disgrace in the eyes of God and man, and worst of all we have seen the Gospel of Jesus Christ and twisted and distorted it by false teachers to accommodate the destructive morals and secular behavior of these times.
~ Billy Graham
If we truly love Christ, we will want to please and honor Him by the way we live. Even the thought of hurting Him or bringing disgrace to His name will be abhorrent to us.
~ Billy Graham
You folks might be better than the Cunninghams, but it doesn't count for nothing the way you're disgracing them.
~ Harper Lee
Without his armor, Tyr Tejohn Treygar thought he must have looked like a man disgraced. It was ridiculous, of course; by Festival custom and royal decree, everyone went without armor today, even the guards at the gates.
~ Harry Connolly
Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.
~ John Murray
And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
~ Simon Raven
You have become like us,disgraced and mortal.
~ Stanley Kunitz
I regarded it more as an honor than a disgrace to be permitted to share this fate of the complete destruction of literary existence in Germany with such eminent contemporaries as Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Werfel, Freud, Einstein, and many others whose work I consider incomparably more important than my own
~ Stefan Zweig
Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
~ Epictetus
The gist of all three was that the CDC, under Robert Redfield, had been disgraced. It had let itself be used by the Trump administration to lead the United States in a direction opposite to the direction the United States had once led the world.
~ Michael Lewis
the CDC, under Robert Redfield, had been disgraced. It had let itself be used by the Trump administration to lead the United States in a direction opposite to the direction the United States had once led the world.
~ Michael Lewis
Even though there wasn't much damage, it's a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.
~ Isoroku Yamamoto