Reproach Quotes - Page 5

• Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!

  William Blake

  Titles, Fool

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.185, Penguin

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• Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lexicographer, May, Praise

  A Dictionary of the English Language preface (1755)

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• He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

  Demosthenes

  Kindness, Men, Different

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• The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Atheist, Challenges, Wicked

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.164, Image

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• I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Believe, Bye

  Constitutional Convention Address on Prayer, delivered Thursday, June 28, 1787, Philadelphia, PA

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• Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Self, Feels

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.314, Pearson Education

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• To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion; and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, Justice, Principles

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.235

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• The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.51, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a man, in the pursuit or defense of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, or contempt.

  Samuel Griswold Goodrich

  Spring, Men, Defense

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• Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

  Aristotle

  Revenge, Attachment, Bitterness

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2944, Delphi Classics

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• The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Sake, Form

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.942, Wordsworth Editions

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• As long as one is following the right way, one should never be concerned about the reproaches of those who like to find faults.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Long, Way, Faults

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• But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

  Robert Peel

  Courage, Men, Waste

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• I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.

  Chief Seattle

  Brother, Decay, May

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• He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Should Have, Eggs

  Charles Dickens (2004). “The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens”, p.561, Wordsworth Editions

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• A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hurt, Doe, Treats

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851.

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• If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it.

  Mordecai

  Jesus, Causes, Bears

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• What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self, Guilt, Done

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.

  Wilfred Bion

  Age, Ought, Seeing

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• Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Fate, Abdication, Steps

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• The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

  Aldous Huxley

  Forgiveness, Men, Self

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.

  George Will

  Dream, Strong, Men

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• A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Essence, Heaven, Despair

  "Journal d'un poète"by Alfred de Vigny, (p. 32), 1949.

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• How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.

  Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

  Angel, Past, Men

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• What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.

  Winifred Holtby

  Book, Sarcasm, Littles

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