Disgrace Quotes

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. (Hesiod)
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. View quote
Sun Tzu
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. View quote
Vittorio Alfieri
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. View quote
W. C. Fields
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. View quote
Ronald Reagan
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. View quote
Martti Ahtisaari
The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more. (Horatio Nelson)
The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. View quote
Agnes Smedley
Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it. View quote
Payne Stewart
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. View quote
Valerie Solanas
Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill. View quote
William Hazlitt
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice. View quote
William Hazlitt
The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity. View quote
John Ruskin
"Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Let us not despair; it is a blessed cause, and success, ere long, will crown our exertions. Already we have gained one victory; we have obtained, for these poor creatures, the recognition of their human nature, which, for a while was most shamefully denied. This is the first fruits of our efforts; let us persevere and our triumph will be complete. Never, never will we desist till we have wiped away this scandal from the Christian name, released ourselves from the load of guilt, under which we at present labour, and extinguished every trace of this bloody traffic, of which our posterity, looking back to the history of these enlightened times, will scarce believe that it has been suffered to exist so long a disgrace and dishonour to this country. (William Wilberforce)
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. View quote
Orson Scott Card
While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization. View quote
Margaret Sanger
Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace. View quote
Billy Connolly
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. View quote
Lucius Accius