It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

- Pericles

The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace.

- Tom Hunter

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

- Sydney Smith

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

- Stephen Ambrose

A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

- Saint Bernard

The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

- Rick Perry

I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.

- Pamela Anderson

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

- Pierre Corneille

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

- Pierre Corneille

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

- Phaedrus

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

- Benjamin E. Mays

I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I had,' it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.

- Mark Harmon

A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.

- Marcel Carne

It's an absolute disgrace that there isn't a books programme on the BBC.

- Mariella Frostrup

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

- Milton Berle

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

- Malcolm X

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

- Josh Billings

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

- Horace

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

- Hesiod

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

- Colin Powell