Disgrace is the synonym of discovery. [ Alfred de Musset ]
No one can disgrace us but ourselves. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]
Could he with reason murmur at his case
Himself sole author of his own disgrace? [ Cowper ]
Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Why are those tears? why droops your head
Is then your other husband dead?
Or does a worse disgrace betide?
Hath no one since his death applied? [ Gay ]
War is the corruption and disgrace of man. [ Thomson ]
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain,
Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,
And bear the marks upon a blushing face,
Of needless shame, and self-imposed disgrace. [ Cowper ]
It is the crime that's the disgrace, not the scaffold. [ Corneille ]
The disgrace of others often deters tender minds from vice. [ Horace ]
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [ Plautus ]
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer. [ Phaedrus ]
Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it. [ Mme. de Sevigne ]
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace. [ Cicero ]
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war his corruption, his disgrace. [ Thomson ]
Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked. [ Ouida ]
The punishment of perjury at the hands of the gods is perdition; at the hands of man, is disgrace. [ One of the laws of the Twelve Tables ]
Whatever disgrace we have merited, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our character. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
A fair complexion is a disgrace in a sailor; he ought to be tanned, from the spray of the sea and the rays of the sun. [ Ovid ]
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! [ Burke ]
The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear, and not disgrace, his apotheosis of him. [ Thoreau ]
To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
That man is an ill husband of his honour that entereth into any action, the failing wherein may disgrace him more than the carrying of it through can honour him. [ Bacon ]
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 ]
That same dew, which sometime on the buds was wont to swell, like round and orient pearls, stood now within the pretty flowerets' eyes, like tears that did their own disgrace bewail. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank. [ Colton ]