Quotes about Dishonorable Actions

Francesco Guicciardini

It would be necessary to eliminate the excessive regard and esteem for wealth, because the craving for riches erodes the desire for true glory, prevents the cultivation of the virtues and results in countless seizures of what belongs to others, as well as many other dishonorable actions.

George Herbert

An ill deed cannot bring honor.

Max Beerbohm

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

Gustave Humbert

I was wrong to expose myself to disaster and dishonor … I was lucky to escape … I shall leave here to sacrifice my position and my life in order to make the truth known.

In one of the classic disputes between the military and civilian authorities, the government did not want to spend the money or risk the troops to expand French positions. The military officers however had a different view. Humbert suffered a military setback in the field and felt that he was caught in between the higher military and civilian authorities.

William Shakespeare

Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.

Grover Cleveland

Party faithlessness is party dishonor.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

Bill Clinton

A great party is not to be brought down because of a scandal by a woman of easy virtue ...

In 1963 Great Britain was rocked by the Profumo affair where the Defense Minister and a Russian officer were sharing the same mistress.

Dishonorable Actions Quotes