Top 25 Disgrace Quotes of 41

Same sex marriage is a disgrace to the nation and to God. When I was growing up, ‘ungqingili’ [homosexuals in isiZulu] could not stand in front of me, I would knock him out.

Same sex marriage is a disgrace to the nation and to God. When I was growing up, ‘ungqingili’ [homosexuals in isiZulu] could not stand in front of me, I would knock him out.

Jacob Zuma

Sex, Growing Up, Disgrace

If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

Dirk Nowitzki

Defeat, Ashamed, Disgrace

Source: www.spiegel.de

It's no disgrace to be old. But damn if it isn't inconvenient.

Moms Mabley

Damn, Disgrace, Ifs

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

James Weldon Johnson

Black, Disgrace, Inconvenient

James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.72, Courier Corporation

Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.

Ben Hogan

Names, Important, Disgrace

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.

Plutarch

Able, Made, Disgrace

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.72

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Rex Stout

Broke, Disgrace, Catastrophe

Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.87, Bantam

Call no man happy until he is dead.

Solon

Men, Disgrace

If you cry when you're in love, it sure ain't no disgrace.

Elvis Presley

Sadness, Cry, Disgrace

Song: A Mess of Blues

Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.

F. F. Bruce

Christian, Behavior, Disgrace

Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Reputation, Ignominy, Disgrace

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

Henry Ford

Honest, Failing, Disgrace

Henry Ford (2007). “My Life and Work”, p.273, Cosimo, Inc.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

Malcolm X

Criminals, Crime, Disgrace

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

George Orwell

Autobiography, Disgraceful, Trusted

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.210, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To what will love not stoop!

Samuel Beckett

Love, Disgrace, Stoops

Samuel Beckett (2010). “The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett: All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Cascando, Eh Joe, Footfall, Rockaby and others”, p.152, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

Teresa of Avila

Faults, Disgrace, Misfortunes

Saint Teresa (of Avila) (2009). “Interior Castle: (the Dwelling Places)”, p.11, Lulu.com

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

Plato

Suffering, Injustice, Disgraceful

Plato (2012). “Gorgias and Timaeus”, p.117, Courier Corporation

No work, as long as it is decent, can ever disgrace anybody.

Maria von Trapp

Long, Decent, Disgrace

Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Insincerity, Disgraceful

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.72