Reproach Quotes

We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

Knight without fear and without reproach.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.

Some reproaches praise;
some praises reproach.

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.

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

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

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.

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

The reproach of a friend should be strictly just, but not too frequent.

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

There are reproaches which praise,
and praises which defame.

Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.