Quotes About Disgrace

The past is such a curious creature, To look her in the face A transport may reward us, Or a disgrace. Unarmed if any meet her, I charge them, fly ! Her rusty ammunition Might yet reply !

Nous fuyons son Visage d'autant plus que nous l'apprécions De peur que l'ineffable disgrâce de la vision Entache Notre Adoration

New York State is upside down and backwards high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

Getting kicked out of Cube has tarnished my reputation and disgraced myself.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

As a country, we can't teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that's - that's a disgrace.

She and Diana talked so constantly about it all day that with a stricter teacher than Mr. Phillips dire disgrace must inevitably have been their portion.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability.

We are seekers of beauty, but avoid extravagance. We admire learning, but are unimpressed by pedantry. For us, wealth is an aim for its value when used, not as an empty boast. And the disgrace of poverty lies not in the admission of it, but more in the failure to avoid it in practice.

At the same time, however, for antiquity the holiest sign of the presence of God, the cross, is the symbol of utter disgrace and remoteness from God. Antiquity becomes our historical heritage in this twofold relationship to Christ, in its nearness and its opposition to Christ.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

We still went under the system, then, that praise to the face was open disgrace.

Sono un discendente di quelle disgraziate creatre rimaste prigioniere tra di voi dopo il cataclisma che chiamate congiunzione delle sfere. Per usare un'espressione delicata passo per essere un mostro. Un mostro sanguinario.

Actually, there was nothing sudden about his undoing. His fall was inevitable. The end of this story was determined years ago when he chose a path that, from the very beginning, had dishonor, disgrace, and dismissal as the destination. Direction determines destination. Every time.

The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

Modi is a disgrace to the prime minister's post.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

I think it's a disgrace to make actors become pitchmen. You see it on 'The Beverly Hillbillies,' you see it on 'Bonanza.'

few things are worse for an individual than to be forced out of a job in disgrace.

How great would be the disgrace to such a borough as that of Westminster if it should find that it had been taken in by a false spirit of speculation and that it had surrendered itself to gambling when it had thought to do honour to honest commerce.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.