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'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.
— Thomas Huxley
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.
— Geraldine Jewsbury
Integrity means that we are trustworthy and dependable, and our character is above reproach.
— Billy Graham
I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.
— Claire Denis
Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.
— Joan Robinson
Her tone spoke less of nostalgia than reproach, of feelings long coveted and repeated whenever she had the chance.
— Cesar Aira
Truly said, We've talked to people, Mr. Cole. You've an outstanding reputation for diligence, and your integrity is above reproach.
— Robert Crais
How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.
— Beth Richardson Gutcheon
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
— Samuel Johnson
So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
— Bayard Taylor
Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.
— William Wordsworth
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
— Robert E.Lee
Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.
— Honore De Balzac
It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.
— Thomas Hardy
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
— Thucydides
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.
— Aristophanes
If the church is acceptable to this present ageand is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded. — Billy Graham
There is a luxury in self-reproach.
— Oscar Wilde
There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
— Oscar Wilde
He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.
— Thomas Paine
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.
— Matthew Henry
I must do what my conscience bids. I have borne long with self-reproach that would have roused any mind less torpid and cowardly than mine.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.
— Henry David Thoreau
We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.
— Jesse Helms
When people reproach us, they only increase their own failings even as they are disclaiming them.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
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.
— Agatha Christie
Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.
— Pittacus Of Mytilene
Now everything about their lives had become a duet.
— Evelyn Pryce
Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.
— Plato
I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach.
— Charles Dickens
No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.
— Thomas A Kempis
The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.
— Henry David Thoreau
The reproach of a friend should be strictly just, but not too frequent.
— Eustace Budgell
Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.
— Margery Allingham
Fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
— Joseph Smith Jr.
You have ability and people who don't never forgive you for it. Your very existence is a constant reproach to them.
— H. Beam Piper
It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same
— Irvine Welsh
Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.
— Henry David Thoreau
I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
— Kate Smith
What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.
— Nathaniel Branden
What is a miracle?'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too. — Edward Young
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.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
— Jupiter Hammon
The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them." But
— Murray Leinster
There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune.
— Anton Chekhov
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
— Honore De Balzac
There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.
— Benjamin Franklin
Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?
— Herman Melville
Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do!
— Theophile Thore
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.
— Samuel Johnson
Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Knight without fear and without reproach.
— Richard Harris Barham
Grace is an empowerment to be above and beyond reproach, to live your life at a standard that pleases God.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.
— Mason Cooley
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
— Anatole France
But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.
— Ferdinand Lassalle
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?
— Jef I. Richards
Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!
— William Blake
The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.
— William Safire
