Disgrace quotes
41 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious."
"If you cry when you're in love, it sure ain't no disgrace."
"Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation."
"There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail"
"To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace"
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"To what will love not stoop!"
"It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin."
"To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead."
"Those who are content suffer no disgrace."
"Failure is not a disgrace if you have sincerely done your best."
"Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another. [Disgraces are like cherries, one draws another.]"
"It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience."
