Reproach Quotes

I remember from the 2000 election I felt like maybe the one place that I always held in my heart as above reproach is not as above reproach.

We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

Those that refuse the covenant, reproach it, or rail against it, ought to be looked at as enemies to it and dealt with accordingly.

The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What`s wrong with this picture?

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.