Top 216 Reproach Quotes & Sayings

When people reproach us, they only increase their own failings even as they are disclaiming them.

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

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

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.

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

O you who reproach me, regarding my love, excuse me. From me to you if you do justice, you would not reproach me. My state (of love) has been expressed to you, (now) my secret is no longer concealed.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: Where is the salt?

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.

'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end.

There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?

John Cena's work ethic is beyond reproach. It's been phenomenal to see what he does and he's made himself a brand.

Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.

Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

It seems that whatever we do is somehow beyond reproach - murder, rape, drunk driving - as long as we go on a TV show and apologize.

Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.

Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.

If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.

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

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.

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

A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.

There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.

We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.

concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.

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

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.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

It is difficult to heal the wound of reproach.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.

Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

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

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

The reproach of a friend should be strictly just, but not too frequent.

He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.