Quotes of Discreditable - somelinesforyou

“ The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Half our fears are baseless, the other half discreditable. ”

- John Christian Bovee

“ There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. ”

- John Christian Bovee

“ I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak… ”

- Aldous Huxley
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