Quotes of Dishonor - somelinesforyou

“ Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ O shame! Where is thy blush? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ While you live, tell truth and shame the devil. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right — shame on you! ”

- Louis Armstrong

“ The public have neither shame or gratitude. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ When virtue hides her face it is called modesty; when vice does so, it is called shame. ”

- Evan Esar

“ To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. ”

- John Philpot Curran

“ While you live tell the truth and shame the devil. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Must I hold a candle to my shames? - The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The most curious offspring of shame is shyness. ”

- Sydney Smith

“ I felt shame and failure, for all the compromises I'd made in my life. I could feel his silent disapproval of me. It was an oppressive thing. ”

- Joyce Maynard

“ It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake. ”

- Henry Lawson

“ When you go to areas that have poverty of that level, you're ready to feel shocked and some degree of shame, coming in as a rich westerner. ”

- Ralph Fiennes

“ Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me. ”

- Bible

“ Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. ”

- Euripides

“ If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third. ”

- Cicero

“ For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners — your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards — who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ Those only are despicable who fear to be despised. Ridicule dishonors more than dishonor itself does. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ You shall be fed with the treasures of the nations and shall glory in their riches. Instead of shame and dishonor, you shall have a double portion of prosperity and everlasting joy. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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