Disgrace Quotes - Page 5

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

  Aristotle

  Ornaments, Shame, Young

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". P. 702, 1922.

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• An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Criticism, Hazards

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson”, p.114

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• To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family."

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Father, Science

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Labor is no disgrace.

  Hesiod

  Labor

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• Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.

  Wallace Tripp

  Book, Shoes, Feet

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• It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

  Teresa of Avila

  Faults, Misfortunes

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (2009). “Interior Castle: (the Dwelling Places)”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• There are two ways of doing battle against Disgrace. You may live it down; or you may run away from it and hide. The first method is heart-breaking, but sure. The second cannot be relied upon because of the uncomfortable way Disgrace has of turning up at your heels.

  Edna Ferber

  Running, Heart, Two

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Buttered Side Down”, p.12, Booklassic

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• There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.

  Ken Kesey

  Failure, Facts, Failing

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• To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.

  Plato

  Life Is, Family Life, Persons

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• He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.

  Valerie Solanas

  Hate, Twilight, Feelings

  "SCUM Manifesto". Book by Valerie Solanas, p. 1, 1967.

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• Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

  Homer

  Son, Childhood, Ancestry

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.326

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• To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Knowledge, Giving, Credit

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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• For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Kings, Teaching, Hard Work

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Men, Self

  William Cowper (1811). “Poems”, p.237

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• Maybe the Clinton chapter is over now. They've brought enough disgrace to America, the presidency, and the state department. They corrupted the Justice Department.

  Rudy Giuliani

  America, Justice, Enough

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace.

  Jimmy Webb

  America, Justice, Criminals

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• The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it."

  Confucius

  Hate, Names, People

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius (Book Four, Section 4.5),

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• For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured-disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui-in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.

  Henry Miller

  Fear, War, Eye

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• Ferrari's only objective is to be at the top, in other words, to compete for the World Championship. That's our right. Winning is another matter. It wouldn't be a disgrace to come in second after a tough fight.

  Michael Schumacher

  Fighting, Winning, Ferrari

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Her mother was my wife," the Count roared, loudest of all. "You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the world." And with a shriek of disgust he turned and was gone. Guilietta was beside Inigo then, so excited. "Daddy likes you," she said.

  William Goldman

  Mother, Daddy, Wife

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.253, A&C Black

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• Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

  Sydney Smith

  Men, Poverty, Poor

  In 'Sidney Smith: His Wit and Wisdom' (1900) p. 89 Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible. On William Whewell, in Isaac Todhunter 'William Whewell' (1876) vol. 1, p. 410

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• There's a difference between what I would like to have been and what I would have been. I always fantasized about being a reforming judge or prison governor (I think that the UK penal system is a disgrace) - but it's fantasy.

  Mary Beard

  Thinking, Differences, Judging

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

  Confucius

  Unjust Society, Justice, Honor

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• Justin Bieber's tour bus was stopped by Canadian border patrol agents. And they found marijuana. The agents said Bieber was a disgrace to Canada and should never come back. Then they found the marijuana.

  Craig Ferguson

  Marijuana, Canada, Borders

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• Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Hero, Heart, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.164, Wordsworth Editions

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