Reproach Quotes

• Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

  Mary Astell

  Infancy Is, Want, Advantage

  1694 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies For the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest,'By a Lover of Her Sex', pt.1.

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• When people reproach us, they only increase their own failings even as they are disclaiming them.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  People, Failing, Increase

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• If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others.

  Rosa Parks

  Christian, Humble, Peaceful

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Self, Luxury, Blame

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 8 (1891)

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• Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.

  Pittacus of Mytilene

  Men, May, Nemesis

  As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 78,

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• I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

  Kate Smith

  Hard Work, Sight, Singing

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• To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

  Tacitus

  May, Resentment, Shows

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• The reproach of a friend should be strictly just, but not too frequent.

  Eustace Budgell

  Should

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• We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

  Jesse Helms

  Support, Way, Principles

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• I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Succeed, Bears, Dignity

  "History of England" by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, (Ch. 1), 1849-1861.

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• Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.

  Ted Koppel

  Strong, Medicine, Our Society

  Ted Koppel's Commencement Address at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, www.crisismagazine.com. February 1, 1988.

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• To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

  Demosthenes

  Men, Done, Turns

  Demosthenes (2015). “Complete Works of Demosthenes (Delphi Classics)”, p.2206, Delphi Classics

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• Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Age, Ornaments

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Praise

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• The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Patriotism, Noble, Virtue

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.8, Hayes Barton Press

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• Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Criticism, Praise

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.282, Modern Library

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• Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Inspirational, Truth, Names

  Letter to the American Woman Suffrage Association, October 1885.

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• What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.

  Edward Young

  Miracle, Satire, Mankind

  Edward Young (1839). “Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. [Followed by] A paraphrase on part of the book of Job”, p.228

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• He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.

  Benjamin Harvey Hill

  Christian, Hate, Ambition

  Benjamin Harvey Hill (1891). “Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia: His Life, Speeches and Writings”

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• I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

  Robert E. Lee

  Thinking, Suffering, Ifs

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.325, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.

  Benjamin Graham

  Honesty, Hands, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.65, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.

  Mason Cooley

  Money, Begging, Beggar

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• Knight without fear and without reproach.

  Richard Harris

  Knights

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• He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Listening, Age

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including “The Life of Thomas Paine” – Extensive Biography of the Author”, p.47, e-artnow

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• I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Historical, Bears, Dignity

  "History of England" by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, (Ch. 1), 1849-1861.

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