Quotes: Disgrace

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war – at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.