#reproach

My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach. ↗

— Kojo Annan

#character #father #his #impeccable #integrity

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it. ↗

— William Laud

#ambition #any #become #behold #cheek

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#bear #before #below #century #cheerfully

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#believing #christ #earthly #enjoyments #farewell

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach. ↗

— Demosthenes

#good #him #like #man #much

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. ↗

— Anatole France

#best #people #reproach #subject #talking

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#bound #felt #i #make #more

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

#allows #candidates #honest #law #lie

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

— Kate Smith

#care #faults #hard #hard work #i

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare. ↗

— John Mayer

#disappointment #equate #even #explain #feels