“ Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Man has no right to kill his brother, it is no excuse that he does so in uniform. He only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 3K
“ 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- Copy
- 483
“ To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our character. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 753
“ I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet. ”
- Diana Rigg- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? ”
- Patrick Henry- Copy
- 2.5K
“ To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 1.9K
“ I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right — shame on you! ”
- Louis Armstrong- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 2.7K
“ One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. ”
- Louis Kronenberger- Copy
- 688
“ Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 181
“ It is safest to be moderately base — to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
- 2.7K
“ He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff, But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
- 3K
“ We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory. ”
- Mary McAleese- Copy
- 3.7K
“ To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 2.5K
“ That was one of the things she held against missionaries: how they stressed Christ's submission to humiliation, and so had conditioned the people of Africa to humiliation by the white man. ”
- Nadine Gordimer- Copy
- 719
“ Yoga is really trying to liberate us from... shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing — I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body. ”
- Rodney Yee- Copy
- 778
“ Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 835
“ O the disgrace of it! - / The scandal, the incredible come-down! ”
- Max Beerbohm- Copy
- 3.8K
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