Quotes About Disgrace

A curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach.

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

You double-crossed me, MacVeagh," continued Hollenbach, his speech... You've joined the plot to discredit me and disgrace the administration—for what exact purposes, I don't know yet.

Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.

Mr. O'Halloran tells the class it's a disgrace that boys like McCourt, Clarke, Kennedy, have to hew wood and draw water. He is disgusted by this free and independent Ireland that keeps a class system foisted on us by the English, that we are throwing our talented children on the dungheap.

Their inability to disengage from work in the evening deprives them of the only possible respite from labor, and life without some kind of rest is torture. The worst irony is that taking care of the verminous Gregor is a filthy chore. Gregor, by escaping work, has not only forced his former dependents into labor, but has become work: disgusting work that only his disgraced family can perform.

What I seek is simply a public discussion of a public disgrace.

That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

When Jesus was born, he was already the son of God. I was the daughter of someone who ran away, a big disgrace. And when Jesus suffered, everyone worshipped him. Nobody worshipped me for living with Wen Fu. I was like that wife of Kitchen God. Nobody worshipped me either. He got all the excuses. He got all the credit. She was forgotten.

And truth is true only as it brings down more disgrace and dreariness upon human beings, so that if it shows anything except evil it is illusion, and not truth.

These public executions are a positive disgrace.

He who is most deeply abased and alarmed, by the consciousness of his disgrace, nakedness, want, and misery, has made the greatest progress in the knowledge of himself.

Avoid exposure and disclosure of your possessions and secrets to such a person, who is a liar, shameless or dishonest, cheater, ugly character, and wicked promise, whether anyone is among your friends or family; otherwise, you will disgrace yourself. It is the immense damage to your life.

Humanity is a great and high honour of humans, while racism is the worse and ugly face of human life; it is a disgrace and a rejection of humanity.

Possibly, no one can humiliate and disgrace if one behaves not that with others since love and respect speak to love and respect in return.

His daughters had lived their early life in permanent disgrace for having, none of them, been born a boy.

When you fail, you disgrace yourself and others. When you succeed, be proud and others will be proud for you.

The more a person has oneself disgraced , the more the people around him/her are two-faced.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Fear animates all success addicts. As philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in his Confessions, "I was not afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace; and that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything else in the world."[26] Can you relate to this?

They seemed to think that the greatness of their masters was transferable to themselves. It was considered as being bad enough to be a slave; but to be a poor man's slave was deemed a disgrace indeed!

It is a new step towards independence, once a man dares to express opinions that bring disgrace on him if he entertains them; then even his friends and acquaintances begin to grow anxious. The man of talent must pass through this fire, too; afterwards he is much more his own person.