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Quotes About Reproach

I know of no redeeming qualities in me but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I have to fall back on to this ground. This is my argument in reserve for all cases ... When I am condemned, and condemn myself utterly, I think straightway, "But I rely on my love for some things." Therein I am whole and entire.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
~ Henry James
I awaken and persuade and reproach each one of you, and I do not stop settling down everywhere upon you the whole day. (30d–e)
~ Steven B. Smith
no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.
~ Milan Kundera
Me reprocha que soy un soñador. Parece que no veo las cosas tal como son. No, veo las cosas tal como son, pero además de las cosas visibles veo también las invisibles. Las ideas inventadas no son algo inútil. Son precisamente ellas las que hacen de nuestras casas hogares.
~ Milan Kundera
She had always secretly reproached him for not loving her enough. Her own love she considered above reproach, while his seemed mere condescension.
~ Milan Kundera
So"--he gestured impatiently--"when will you marry him?" "Who?" She seethed, plucking at the folds of her gown. Clouds passed over the moon, momentarily obscuring him from her view. His eerily disembodied voice was mildly reproaching. "Try to follow the conversation, lass. Quinn." "By Odin's shaft--" "Spear," he corrected with a hint of amusement in his voice.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Tu haras que ese nombre sea vil, sucio y despreciable y toda la gente al decirlo escupira en el! - Mixtli a Ce-Malinali
~ Gary Jennings
Such events cannot be ignored, but there is a considerate way of historically treating them. If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet. Though
~ Herman Melville
Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!
~ Homer
Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.
~ Homer
Reproach is infinite, and knows no end.
~ Homer
I had hated him, but I wouldn't have reproached him, any more than I would have reproached a bolt of lightning for striking my house. He wasn't a person . . .
~ Naomi Novik
I had hated him, but I wouldn't have reproached him, any more than I would have reproached a bolt of lightning for striking my house. He wasn't a person, he was a lord and a wizard, a strange creature on another plane entirely, as far removed as storms and pestilence.
~ Naomi Novik
Those who have the power of reproaching in silence may find it a means more effective than words. There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
~ Thomas Hardy
Those who have the power of reproaching in silence may find it a means more effective than words. There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. Boldwood's look was unanswerable.
~ Thomas Hardy
Those who have the power of reproaching in silence may find it a means more effective than words. There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear.
~ Thomas Hardy
S?r?cia, cum bine se spune, nu este o ruÈ™ine, dar asta-i doar o vorb?. Fiindc? ea este cât se poate de însp?imânt?toare pentru cei ce au parte de ea, pe jum?tate cusur È™i pe jum?tate reproÈ™ nehot?rât, aÈ™adar în totul foarte dezagreabil?, È™i a te amesteca cu ea ar putea avea urm?ri nepl?cute.
~ Thomas Mann
There is in every weak, lost and isolated member of the human race an agony of hatred born of his own helplessness, his own isolation. Hatred is the sign and the expression of loneliness, of unworthiness, of insufficiency. And in so far as each one of us is lonely, is unworthy, each one hates himself. Some of us are aware of this self-hatred, and because of it we reproach ourselves and punish ourselves needlessly.
~ Thomas Merton
Her tone spoke less of nostalgia than reproach, of feelings long coveted and repeated whenever she had the chance.
~ César Aira
If you feel an overwhelming rage coming up in you when a friend reproaches you about a fault, you can be fairly sure that at this point you will find a part of your shadow, of which you are unconscious.
~ C.G. Jung
For the loss of those we have loved there is no alleviation but time and carefully and rationally chosen diversions such as will not cause our heart to reproach us.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Oh, now that's not nice ..." Kaldar clicked his tongue.
~ Ilona Andrews
Well, that's the way to do it,' Michaud said, lightly shrugging his shoulders, his voice nonchalant. 'Give the people you should be apologising to a good telling off, that's it!' In spite
~ Irene Nemirovsky