Best Reproach Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.”

Men Should Age Speak Accused Reproach Eulogy

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.”

Men World Writing Men And Women Miserable Thrown Faculty Masculine Reproach Endowment

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth.”

People Facts Fall Critics Paint Superficial Ugliness Reproach Vulgarity

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.”

Thinking May Community Deserve Improvement Engines Admirable Reproach Masonic Contending

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not the true heart language which we cannot choose but love? And what has been their reward? They have sent down their name to be the by-word of all after ages; the worst reproach of the worst men a name convertible with atheism and devil-worship.”

Men Heart Has Beens Age Spirit Names Language Poor Acting Atheism Worst Worship Devil Rewards Adore Peasants Reproach True Heart Devil Worship

Book:Fraser's Magazine

Source: Fraser's Magazine

“concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.”

Ends Self Chance Greater Security Avoided Adversaries Reproach Concessions

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.”

Mind Two Taken Two Things Oath Reproach Offence

Book:Sophocles: Fragments

Source: Sophocles: Fragments

“There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.”

Circumstances Reproach Confluence

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. "Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette," she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.”

Wells Long Fellows Complaining Tone Smoking Cigarette Reproach Server

Book:Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Source: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

“The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.”

Language Drama Conflict Persuasion Ridicule Reproach Pleading Lexicon

Author:William Safire

“Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.”

Men May Misfortunes Reproach Nemesis

Author:Pittacus of Mytilene

“If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.”

Ifs May Given Broken Reproach

Book:Jeanne D'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in Original Documents

Source: Jeanne D'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in Original Documents

“Thou lovest like an infinite God when Thou lovest; Thou movest heaven and earth to save Thy loved ones. Thou becomest man, a babe, the vilest of men, covered with reproaches, dying with infamy and under the pangs of the cross; all this is not too much for an infinite love.”

Men Earth Heaven Too Much Dying Crosses Infinite Covered Loved Ones Babe Heaven And Earth Reproach Infamy Infinite Love

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.”

Half Enemy Professors Reproach Worldliness Half Heartedness

Author:Matthew Henry

“Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.”

Men Age Father Treats Old Man Reproach

Book:The Eleven Comedies - Complete

Source: The Eleven Comedies - Complete

“Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue.”

Trying Play Lost Speech Despair Balls Senators Apostles Reproach Louisiana Spirals Wailing Billiards

Author:Huey Long

“Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.”

Thinking Doe Has Beens Philosophy Sacred Touched Exposed Joining Reproach Atheistic

Book:In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays

Source: In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays

“In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men.”

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day. Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod.”

Remember Causes Prayer Lord Judging Filled Seeking Arise Foolishness Foxes Our Prayers Reproach Vineyards

Author:Pope Leo X

“Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me.”

Said Highest Defense Esteem Chiefs Admiration Staff Reproach Admiral Chief Of Staff

Author:Karl Donitz

“On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.”

Church Numbers Conscience Reproach

Book:Awful disclosures

Source: Awful disclosures

“(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.”

People Made Sides Moral Subjects Intellectual Miserable Agreement Ignored Defects Politeness Reproach Tacit

Book:Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer

Source: Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer

“He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.”

Should Writing Mind Looks Clear Critics Obscurity Reproach Dusk

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.”

Giving Boys Cry Ambition Consequence Give Me Profit Defeated Preference Idleness Animated Reproach Emulation

Book:Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity

Source: Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity

“When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.”

Thinking Giving May Marriage Wife Thee Thyself Reproach

Book:Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author

Source: Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author

“Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.”

Said Honest Praise Reproach

Author:Honore de Balzac

“How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!”

Quality Virtue Failing Vices Reproach

Author:Honore de Balzac

“If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.”

Ifs Hands Hats Expenses Thrust Reproach

Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.”

Shows Poverty Dresses Profession Expected Suits Beggar Reproach Robes Rags Tenure

Book:Essays of Elia