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Disgrace: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!— BURKE — Reflections on the Revolution in

France. Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?— COWPER — Hope. L. 316.

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.— BULWER-LYTTON — Richelieu. Act IV. Sc. 1.

And wilt thou still be hammering treachery, To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honour to disgrace's feet?— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. II. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 47.

Odiosum est enim, cum a prætereuntibus dicatur:-O domus antiqua, heu, quam dispari dominare domino. It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is " thy present master to thy former one.— CICERO — De Officiis. CXXXIX.