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Quotes About Disgrace

How dare he lie to her! And how dare he establish a bordello of all things! Why, their parents would roll over in their graves if they knew. Dead God! They probably knew and already had!
~ Carol Finch
When a white man sees persons of his own race tending downward to a level of disgrace he does not rest until he works out some plan to lift such unfortunates to higher ground; but the Negro forgets the delinquents of his race and goes his way to feather his own nest, as he has done in leaving the masses in the popular churches.
~ Carter G. Woodson
Our family never had any hard luck, because nothing seemed hard luck to it, nor was it ever disgraced for there was nothing which it would acknowledge as disgrace.
~ Boxcar Bertha
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
~ Aristotle
O shame! Where is they blush?
~ William Shakespeare
Th' prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th people. Th' vice-prisidincy is th' next highest an' the lowest. It isn't a crime exactly. Ye can't be sint to jail f r it, but it's a kind iv a disgrace.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
She does not reply. She would rather hide her face, and he knows why. Because of the disgrace. Because of the shame. That is what their visitors have achieved; that is what they have done to this confidant, modern young woman. Like a stain the story is spreading across the district. Not her story to spread but theirs: they are its owners. How they put her in her place, how they showed her what a woman was for.
~ J.M. Coetzee
In my own terms, I am being punished for what happened... I am sunk into a state of disgrace from which it will not be easy to lift myself. It is not a punishment I have refused. I do not murmur against it. On the contrary, I am living it out from day to day, trying to accept disgrace as my state of being. Is it enough for God, do you think, that I live in disgrace without term?
~ J.M. Coetzee
On the contrary, I am living it out from day to day, trying to accept disgrace as my state of being. Is it enough for God, do you think, that I live in disgrace without term?
~ J.M. Coetzee
Courtesy of their tempers, both were now dressed in the Captain Asshole costume—which included, for no extra charge, the cape of disgrace, the booties of shame, and keys to the Fuck Up mobile.
~ J.R. Ward
It looked like Tohr and the kid had a lot in common: Courtesy of their tempers, both were now dressed in the Captain Asshole costume—which included, for no extra charge, the cape of disgrace, the booties of shame, and keys to the Fuck Up mobile.
~ J.R. Ward
Are you saying my grandmahmen is a fucking liar—" Oh, great. The only thing worse than someone calling a Brother's mahmen out was if the offender went up a generation in the bloodline and tossed his granny on the bonfire of disgrace.
~ J.R. Ward
Courtesy of their tempers, both were now dressed in the Captain Asshole costume—which included, for no extra charge, the cape of disgrace, the booties of shame, and keys to the Fuck Up mobile. Christ
~ J.R. Ward
To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.
~ Al-Shafi'i
He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
~ Sydney Smith
peace is the ultimate goal of all religions but even at the end of this century we continue to see how religion is the cause of much strife, bloodshed and disgrace among human beings. Nothing but the flag of religion can crush human beings and humane emotions so completely.
~ Taslima Nasrin
They had felt their own power and saw in Lincoln the means of delivery from an administration that had brought "treachery, imbecility, and rascality" into their lives. It was time to rescue the republic from "the anarchy which has disgraced this great people in the eyes of the whole world."121
~ Ted Widmer
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.
~ William Cowper
On the subject of motive, there are, generally speaking, six major motives for murder. Ready? They are profit, revenge, jealousy, concealment of a crime, avoidance of humiliation or disgrace, and homicidal mania.
~ Nelson DeMille
I've read the stories. Teenagers committing suicide because all they can see ahead of them is shame and disgrace. Kids running away from home because they feel like they've list their future. Well, I'm not having that happen to Torin.
~ Val McDermid
Ignominy thirsts for respect.
~ Victor Hugo
Ignominy thirsts for consideration.
~ Victor Hugo
What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle (On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR)
~ Golda Meir