Quotes About Dishonor

even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick

Honor sometimes means doing something very unwise. Behaving like an idiot is better than dishonor. To this day I blush for having chosen sensible restraint over common decency.

We were disgraced and we felt disgraced.

Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing [...] and you will find all manner of dishonor.

Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

You'd never get Burle to behave decently. When a man sank as low as that, the only thing to do was to throw a spadeful of mud over him and get rid of him like the rotting carcass of some poisonous beast. And even if you shoved his nose in his own shit, he'd only start again the next day and end up stealing a few sous to buy sticks of barley sugar for lice-ridden little beggar-girls.

A tyrant's trust dishonors those who earn it.

You are young and young your rule and you think that the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored.

But you cannot speak of any glory for happenings that are at once evil and held in dishonor.

They were neither the first nor the last to gild the name of thief.

In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.

To live dishonorably is better than to die gloriously.

When the venerable pontiff's hour has come, a Roman of good age shall be elected, of whom it will be said that he dishonored his throne though he held it long, with virtuous acts.

I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people.

the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor , is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the world into two sorts of people: the dead, and the forsworn.

Monsieur Morcerf," said Danglars, pale with anger and fear, "if I find a mad dog in my path I kill it and, far from feeling guilty about it, I feel that I have rendered a service to society. If you are mad and try to bite me, I warn you that I will kill you without pity. Is it my fault that your father is dishonored?

You have less honour than a piece of shit.

If the cause is big enough, people will justify dishonour.

By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report.

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

Disgrace is not to fall but to lie.

wouldn't even insult my mattress by giving it a

It seems we will be offered a choice between dishonor and war. I suspect we shall take dishonor—and get war afterward, as a kind of dessert." Roosevelt

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.