Disgrace - Wikiquote

Disgrace is the condition of having lost or being out of favor, regard, or respect, or of being dishonored, or covered with shame. An event is called a disgrace if it brings dishonor, or causes shame or reproach.

• Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu (1839), Act IV, scene 1.

• The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
  • Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).

• The man that gloats over another man's disgrace and thinks himself raised in dignity by it, is unworthy of future bliss.
  • Genesis Rabbah 1, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 58-59

• And wilt thou still be hammering treachery, To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honour to disgrace's feet?
  • William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II (c. 1590-91), Act I, scene 2, line 47.

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 197.

• Could he with reason murmur at his case,
  Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
  • William Cowper, Hope, line 316.

• Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati.
  • That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
  • Phaedrus, Fables, III. 11. 7.

• Hominum immortalis est infamia;
  Etiam tum vivit, cum esse credas mortuam.
  • Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
  • Plautus, Persa, III. 1. 27.