“There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”
George Farquhar (1677–1707) Irish dramatist
The Beaux’ Stratagem (1707), Arch, Act i, Sc. 1.
Source: Haunted
“There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”
George Farquhar (1677–1707) Irish dramatist
The Beaux’ Stratagem (1707), Arch, Act i, Sc. 1.
“Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.”
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941–2001) Pakistani Sufi spiritual leader, poet, author
The Religion of God (2000)
Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, p.436
Julien Benda (1867–1956) French essayist
Source: Treason of the Intellectuals (1927), pp. 158–159
“Look round and round the man you recommend,
For yours will be the shame should he offend.”
Qualem commendes, etiam atque etiam aspice, ne mox incutiant aliena tibi peccata pudorem.
Book I, epistle xviii, line 76 (translated by John Conington).
Variant translation: Study carefully the character of the one you recommend, lest his misdeeds bring you shame.
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)