Quotes of Ignominy - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting. ”

- Bible

“ Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another: / Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away. ”

- Bible

“ Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old. ”

- Unknown

“ A disgrace. ”

- Nancy Pelosi

“ There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away. ”

- Ken Kesey

“ Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it. ”

- John Grisham

“ Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. ”

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

“ A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life. ”

- Gustave Flaubert

“ In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace. ”

- Sophocles

“ The only shame is to have none. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ No one can disgrace us but ourselves. ”

- J. G. Holland

“ No one can disgrace us but ourselves. ”

- Josh Billings

“ What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase? ”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

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

- John Milton
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