It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
Pierre Corneille

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

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant

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

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.
Jim Palmer

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
Horatio Nelson

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
Josh Billings

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Donald Trump

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
James Thomson

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

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
Milton Berle

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
William Pitt

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Sydney Smith

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.
John Strachan

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

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.
John Murray

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
Phaedrus

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.
Stephen Ambrose

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
Xun Zi

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
Horace