Disgrace Quotes - Page 9

• The judiciary has fallen to a very low state in this country. I think your part of the country has suffered especially. The federal judges of the South are a disgrace to any country, and I'll be damned if I put any man on the bench of whose character and ability there is the least doubt.

  William Howard Taft

  Country, Character, Men

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• The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally violent areseen daily on the newsstands, on TV, in the subways. Hobbesian man roams the streets, quite visible, with glitter in his hair.

  Susan Sontag

  Men, Hair, People

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• To what will love not stoop!

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Stoops

  Samuel Beckett (2010). “The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett: All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Cascando, Eh Joe, Footfall, Rockaby and others”, p.152, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace which would be heaped upon me. But what matter? I had no children to dishonor; all save one who had ever loved me were dead, and she no longer needed me, and if the Lord wanted some one to throw into that gulf, no one could be better spared than I.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Children, School, Fishing

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• A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.

  Caroline Norton

  Suffering, Publicity, Facts

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1978). “Selected writings of Caroline Norton: facsimile reproductions”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Reputation, Ignominy

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• A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Drinking, Wine, Character

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• Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Long, Lines, Ancestry

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• The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the slanderer takes away his goodly reputation and leaves him a living monument to his children's disgrace.

  Andrew Jackson

  Children, Character, Parent

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• My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Stupid, Writing, Romance

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• When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Might, Resistance, Needs

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• He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Perfect, Gentleman, Intimacy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.127

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• starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

  Pearl S. Buck

  World, Unnecessary, Hunger

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Humility, Suffering And Death, Religion

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• We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Care, Skirts

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• You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.

  Horace

  Happiness, Men, Names

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 350-52, Carmina, IX, Book 4. 9. 45, 1922.

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• It's abominable, and it's a disgrace to a great democracy to see what's happened in our country. The main reason for that has been the enormous infusion of high quantities of money to campaigns - governors, Congress, president and the U.S. Senate.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, President, Democracy

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• Well, Harry Reid and other members of congress, they're just furious over this Olympic uniform deal. He says we should burn the uniforms, and it's an embarrassment and a disgrace. Not as embarrassing as congress constantly borrowing money from the Chinese, but still embarrassing.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, London Olympics, Chinese

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• For if many ill-conceived plans have succeeded through the still greater lack of judgment of an opponent, many more, apparently well laid, have on the contrary ended in disgrace. The confidence with which we form our schemes is never completely justified in their execution; speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

  Thucydides

  Safety, Opponents, Causes

  Thucydides (1996). “The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War”

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• Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome. ... no one can disgrace you save yourself.

  Ouida

  Giving, Guests, Welcome

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)”, p.141

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• The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and the tragic and bitter end to it have always fascinated, appalled and attracted me since childhood. It was he who first in some measure vindicated my sexuality.

  Stephen Fry

  Men, Childhood, Important

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• In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Fall, People

  Benjamin Franklin (2005). “A Benjamin Franklin reader: the essential writings of a colonial sage ; Autobiography, Wit & wisdom”

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• I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace, or the fear of danger or of death deter them from asserting the liberty of their country, and endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born

  George Mason

  Country, Ambition, Son

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• Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.

  Barbara Holland

  War, Winning, Starting

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• Precedents are the disgrace of legislation. They are not wanted to justify right measures, are absolutely insufficient to excuse wrong ones. They can only be useful to heralds, dancing masters, and gentlemen ushers.

  Laurence Sterne

  Dancing, Gentleman, Excuse

  Richard Griffith, Laurence Sterne (1794). “The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne: ...”

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