Disgrace Quotes

At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
Earl Blumenauer

Time, Sad, Democracy

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.
Payne Stewart

Live, Person, Country

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.
Pamela Anderson

Proud, Keep, Able

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
Lucius Accius

Life, Death, Escape

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

Suffer, Deserved

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

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
Anna Held

Time, Working, Around

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

Peace, War, Happy

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

Life, Good, Death

However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.
Adam Rickitt

Legal, Sex, Long

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
Christopher Fry

School, Playing, Public

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?
Robert Walpole

Before, House, Name

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
David Hare

God, Honor, Whose

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

Love, Death, Rather

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

Poverty, Annoying

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Daniel Berrigan

Peace, War, Death

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

Family, Mother, Father

Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover.
Edward Grey

Good, Country, Name

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Vittorio Alfieri

Crime, Punishment, Consist

A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.
Marcel Carne

I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God. I understand that a lot of young mothers probably wouldn't know what to do in that situation, but over your life you learn to forgive everything.
Ronnie Milsap

Life, God, Mother

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
F. L. Lucas

History, Long, Last

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

Money, Job, Training

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.
Thomas Day

Nature, Heart, Human

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

The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace.
Tom Hunter

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.
Thomas Willis

Power, Children, Name

I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.
Diana Rigg

Good, Hope, Left

If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.
Stephen Dillane

Yourself, Feeling, Actor

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.
John Andre

Life, Death, Country

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