Top 416 Disgrace Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
Explore popular Disgrace quotes.
Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.
We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.
Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?
And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.
The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.
Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face,
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.
You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.
Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.
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.
Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.
Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation.
I think it's a disgrace to make actors become pitchmen. You see it on 'The Beverly Hillbillies,' you see it on 'Bonanza.'
Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.
An untidy, badly run house will ruin any marriage and is a disgrace to any intelligent woman.
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.
That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.
There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
It was a national disgrace to lose the ERA, but of course we will start, and have done so, all over again. ... There is no deadline for equality in our society.
It is a disgrace. I think darts should be at the Olympics. Obviously you'd have to cut out the drinking side of the game. But apart from that there's no reason why it shouldn't be there.
The fossil fuel industry has been a particular disgrace, polluting our politics as well as our planet.
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.
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.
Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.
I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.
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.
Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.
There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's liberty for a filthy bowl of oatmeal and promise of security by liars.
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
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."
I'll not have my grandson subjected to the humiliation of his reading becoming public. We have to cope with this disgrace discreetly -- Grandma Ruth
I think it's a disgrace that some would allow extreme voices in this country to erase our proud heritage.
For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.
Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.
Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our rule of laws.
I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them.
The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.
The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace.
Never does sin so reign in the Church or State, as when it has gained reputation,or, at least, is no disgrace to the sinner,nor is a matter od offence to we who behold it.
Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.
The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.
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.
I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.
The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.
