Quotes with disgrace

  • 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.
  • There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
  • 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.
  • Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
  • 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.
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  • Sun Tzu 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.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Lucius Accius A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
    Lucius Accius
    Roman tragic poet and literary (170 - 86)
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  • Lao-Tzu Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Pierre Corneille I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Kin Hubbard It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Pierre Corneille It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Bobby Fischer Kasparov is a gangster, he is a disgrace to chess, he is a disgrace to the human race. He is not something Russia should be proud of. He should join Khodorkovsky in prison. He has committed a terrible fraud with all these prearranged games and matches.
    Radio Interview, May 15 2005 [29]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Ulysses S. Grant Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.
    Ulysses S. Grant
    American Army general (1822 - 1885)
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  • Agnes Smedley 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.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Josh Billings No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • James Thomson Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
    James Thomson
    Scottish poet (1700 - 1748)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Stevie Smith Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
    Stevie Smith
    English poet and novelist (1902 - 1971)
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  • William Pitt Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
    William Pitt
    British statesman (1759 - 1806)
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  • William Pitt Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
    William Pitt
    British statesman (1759 - 1806)
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  • Mother Teresa Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Horace The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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