DISGRACE

Related Subjects: Contempt, Scorn, Shame

1. Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.—BULWER-LYTTON, Richelieu
   

2. Infamy was never incurred for nothing.—BURKE, Impeachment of Warren Hastings
   

3. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!—BURKE, Reflections on the Revolution in France
   

4. Could he with reason murmer at his case,
   Himself sole author of his own disgrace?—COWPER, Hope
   

5. The lowliest men would sooner face
   A thousand dreadful deaths, than come
   Before their loved ones in disgrace.—JOHN DAVIDSON, A Ballad of a Coward

6. A wise and good man can suffer no disgrace.—FABIUS MAXIMUS
   

7. That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.—PHAEDRUS, Fables
   

8. The pleasure is over, but the disgrace remains.—Proverb

9. And wilt thou still be hammering treachery,
   To tumble down thy husband and thyself
   From top of honour to disgrace's feet?—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
   

10. It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.—SOPHOCLES, Peleus