Quotes of Dishonour - somelinesforyou

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

- Benjamin Franklin

“ You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat. But to lie there — that's a disgrace. ”

- E. V. Cooke

“ O shame! Where is thy blush? ”

- William Shakespeare

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

- William Shakespeare

“ An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful. ”

- Thucydides

“ 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

“ Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. ”

- William Pitt Chatham

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

- Alexander Pope

“ Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace. ”

- William Shakespeare

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Honore de Balzac

“ 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

“ It will be a shame if either side lose, and that applies to both sides. ”

- Jock Brown

“ Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. ”

- William Pitt

“ Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away. ”

- Abraham Cowley

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

- William Shakespeare

“ Truth...never comes into the world but like a Bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth. ”

- John Milton

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

- William Shakespeare

“ Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not remember'd in thy epitaph! - King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach. ”

- Bible

“ Some states have passed abominable laws that are a disgrace to democracy. ”

- Jimmy Carter

“ Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man. ”

- Henry Beston

“ Secondly, the death of the righteous is to be desired rather then lamented: and it were a dishonour put upon Religion to think a pious man less happy dead, then when he liv'd. ”

- John Pearson
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