Rebuke Quotes

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.