Disgrace Quotes - Page 12

• But ah, to fish with a worm, and then not catch your fish! To fail with a fly is no disgrace: your art may have been impeccable, your patience faultless to the end. But the philosophy of worm-fishing is that of results, of having something tangible in your basket when the day's work is done.

  Bliss Perry

  Art, Philosophy, Lakes

  Bliss Perry (1916). “Fishing with a Worm”

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• Well, Harry Reid and other members of congress, they're just furious over this Olympic uniform deal. He says we should burn the uniforms, and it's an embarrassment and a disgrace. Not as embarrassing as congress constantly borrowing money from the Chinese, but still embarrassing.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, London Olympics, Chinese

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• It's abominable, and it's a disgrace to a great democracy to see what's happened in our country. The main reason for that has been the enormous infusion of high quantities of money to campaigns - governors, Congress, president and the U.S. Senate.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, President, Democracy

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.

  Horace

  Happiness, Men, Names

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 350-52, Carmina, IX, Book 4. 9. 45, 1922.

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• True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Humility, Suffering And Death, Religion

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• starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

  Pearl S. Buck

  World, Unnecessary, Hunger

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Perfect, Gentleman, Intimacy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.127

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• When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Might, Resistance, Needs

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• My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Stupid, Writing, Romance

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• Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome. ... no one can disgrace you save yourself.

  Ouida

  Giving, Guests, Welcome

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)”, p.141

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• In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Fall, People

  Benjamin Franklin (2005). “A Benjamin Franklin reader: the essential writings of a colonial sage ; Autobiography, Wit & wisdom”

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• We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hope, Eye, Fate

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.12, Taylor Trade Publications

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• We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Care, Skirts

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• The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Vanity, Triumph

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.473

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• To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace.
  [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stones, Folly, Proverbial

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• He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.

  Juvenal

  House, Lasts

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• Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another.
  [Disgraces are like cherries, one draws another.]

  George Herbert

  Cherries, Draws

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• Fashion, leader of a chatt'ring train,
  Whom man for his own hurt permits to reign
  Who shifts and changes all things but his shape,
  And would degrade her vot'ry to an ape,
  The fruitful parent of abuse and wrong,
  Holds a usurp'd dominion o'er his tongue,
  There sits and prompts him with his own disgrace,
  Prescribes the theme, the tone, and the grimace,
  And when accomplish'd in her wayward school,
  Calls gentleman whom she has made a fool.

  William Cowper

  Fashion, Hurt, School

  William Cowper (1837). “Poems; to which is prefixed a memoir of the author by J. M'Diarmid”, p.217

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• All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.

  Rebecca West

  Smell, Differences, Degrees

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Birds Fall Down”, p.151, Open Road Media

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• Precedents are the disgrace of legislation. They are not wanted to justify right measures, are absolutely insufficient to excuse wrong ones. They can only be useful to heralds, dancing masters, and gentlemen ushers.

  Laurence Sterne

  Dancing, Gentleman, Excuse

  Richard Griffith, Laurence Sterne (1794). “The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne: ...”

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• Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.

  Barbara Holland

  War, Winning, Starting

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the slanderer takes away his goodly reputation and leaves him a living monument to his children's disgrace.

  Andrew Jackson

  Children, Character, Parent

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• Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Long, Lines, Ancestry

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• For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

  Shirley Hazzard

  People, Support, Obscure

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• The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the essentials of the history of slavery and its relation to Christian doctrine. Indeed, sad to say, his grasp is a great deal stronger than that of most professors of American history, whose distortions and trivializations disgrace our college classrooms. And the Reverend Mr. Wilson is a fighter, especially effective in defense of Christianity against those who try to turn Jesus' way of salvation into pseudo-moralistic drivel.

  Eugene Genovese

  Christian, Strong, Jesus

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