#reproach

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

— Anatole France

#best #people #reproach #subject #talking

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

#consciences #doing #even #i #i think

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

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings. ↗

— Robert Peel

#burst #courage #his #indignation #man

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#cross #death #hardened #itself #like

Knight without fear and without reproach. ↗

— Richard Harris Barham

#knight #reproach #without

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. ↗

— Maria Monk

#confirmed #conscience #day #extremely #i

As a leader, you're supposed to be above reproach, and what that means is you can't even give the appearance that you're going to do something wrong. ↗

— Kevin Thomas

#appearance #even #give #going #leader

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

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