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Quotes About Disgrace

He had been angry for years about the disgraceful way the priory was run, and now he had a chance to set all those things right himself. Suddenly he was not sure he could. It was not just a question of seeing what ought to be done and ordering that it should be so. People had to be persuaded, property had to be managed, money had to be found. It was a job for a wise head. The responsibility would be heavy.
~ Ken Follett
The worst thing of all would be to disgrace himself. He was more afraid of that than of dying.
~ Ken Follett
With foreheads villainous low.
~ William Shakespeare
Thou deboshed fish thou.
~ William Shakespeare
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyesI all alone beweep my outcast state,And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries.
~ William Shakespeare
Christianity itself has been too often disgraced. It has been turned into an engine of cruelty, and amidst the bitterness of persecution, every trace has disappeared of the mild and beneficent spirit of the religion of Jesus.
~ William Wilberforce
The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
~ Xun Zi
There will always be men who rally to the cause of another man in his moment of disgrace simply because they fear their own so deeply.
~ Deanna Raybourn
I think," she said gently, "you must have enough experience of the world to know better than that. There will always be men who rally to the cause of another man in his moment of disgrace simply because they fear their own so deeply.
~ Deanna Raybourn
He who denies sex is a filthy person who smears in the lowest way his own parents who have begotten him
~ Egon Schiele
Apartheid is, in my view, as abhorrent as anti-Semitism. To me, Andrei Sakharov's isolation is as much a disgrace as Joseph Begun's imprisonment and Ida Nudel's exile. As is the denial of Solidarity and its leader Lech Walesa's right to dissent. And Nelson Mandela's interminable imprisonment.
~ Elie Wiesel
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 bin Abu-Talib
O men of Islam ! The time has come for steadfastness. Weakness and cowardice lead to disgrace; and he who is steadfast is more deserving of Allah's help. He who stands bravely before the blade of the sword will be honored, and his labors rewarded, when he goes before Allah. Lo ! Allah loves the steadfast.
~ al-Walid, Khalid ibn
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
~ Agnes Smedley
It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the U.S., quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.
~ Geoff Mulgan
Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?
~ Robert Walpole
Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets.
~ Andrew Lloyd Webber
Your a skid-mark on the underwear of humanity. -Ostin Liss
~ Richard Paul Evans
You're a skid-mark on the underwear of humanity. -Ostin Liss
~ Richard Paul Evans
We were disgraced and we felt disgraced.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
passed through her into the wall, he pissed himself.
~ Kresley Cole
We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.
~ Walter Scott
If the earth was restful and good to those who loved it, the villagers contaminating it like vermin, those human insects battening on it's flesh, were enough to disgrace it and blight any approach to it.
~ Émile Zola