Shame Quotes
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It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.
— Joan Fontaine
For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.
— Elizabeth Inchbald
Starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
— Pearl S. Buck
What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.
— Walter Russell Mead
It is our birthright to uncover the soul - to remove the layers of fear or shame or apathy or cynicism that conceal it.
— Elizabeth Lesser
Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.
— Johann Most
Why, Andrew, why would it irritate me? Do you think that being loved by you is something to be ashamed of? I don't.
— Andrew Ashling
Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
— Igor Stravinsky
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.
— William, Saroyan
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
— Seneca The Younger
I'm not interested.""That's a shame," I shrugged. "It would have been fun to slum it. — Teresa Mummert
You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
— Victor Hugo
The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame.
— Emil M. Cioran
Among austere men intimacy involves shameand is something precious. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Shame is a destroyer of self-worth.
— Shannon Tanner
They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
— Katherine Dunn
The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.
— Amanda Palmer
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
— Denis Diderot
My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.
— Carey Mulligan
Yoooou!" she howled, her eyes popping at the sight of the man. "Blood traitor, abomination, shame of my flesh!
— J.K. Rowling
Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
To relinquish yourself carries no shame.
— Haruki Murakami
I wonder how much shame people can hold before they ignite.
— Corrine Jackson
It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.
— Rabindranath Tagore
When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.
— Louie Giglio
Where shame is, there is also fear.
— John Milton
I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.
— James Gray
He'd make Cujo hang his head in poser shame.
— Dakota Cassidy
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
— Earl Wilson
Face it, dude. You nearly did sex on God's table. You're already shame spiralling big-time.
— Chuck Palahniuk
The more guilt and shame that we have buried within ourselves, the more compelled we feel to seek relief through sin.
— Brennan Manning
That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying.
— Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.
— Pierre Corneille
It would be a shame to go out with a hot girl you can't have a decent conversation with!
— Justin Bieber
She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.
— Judith McNaught
I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.
— Marcus Brigstocke
Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.
— Claude Lelouch
The shame of fools conceals their open wounds.[Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.] — Horace
Victory and defeat are matters of the temporary force of circumstances. The way of avoiding shame is different. It is simply in death.
— Tsunetomo Yamamoto
She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
— D.H. Lawrence
God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.
— Terry Eagleton
I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.
— Mickey Rourke
The more judgmental a person is the sadder they are.
— David W. Earle
We are a society of excuses, shame and blame; we avoid accountability and often project our responsibility when involving domestic violence.
— Asa Don Brown
I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.
— David Tennant
But a man's walking-around body can be a ghost a whole lot easier than his spirit can.
— Sarah Porter
Survival is your strength not your shame.
— T. S. Eliot
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
— George Chapman
Lord, I desire to live as one Who bears a blood-bought name, As one who fears but grieving Thee, And knows no other shame.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Know-it-all", another nameused by (some) who would shame
Feeling bad about their
own lack in vivacity
of curiosity. — Cheri Bauer
Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be ... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.
— Xavier Becerra
We frequently applaud failure in theory, but the dirty little secret is that it makes all of us feel at least a little ashamed.
— Whitney Johnson
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Looks like it's game time," Shame said. "Beautiful day for some ass kicking, don't you think?
— Devon Monk
A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.
— George Sand
I kept you so well, buried beneath the darkest shame and stilled with filthy lies. Perhaps I should have dug deeper.
— Nicole Lyons
For example, when I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary.
— Brene Brown
Like many entrepreneurs, Bushnell had no shame about distorting reality in order to motivate people.
— Walter Isaacson
Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn't have tried to turn ya into a snake.
— Michelle M. Pillow
Such silly things, children - and so embarrassing - because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something.
— Gregory Maguire
It was the emotion I hated the most of all emotions, shame.
— Sister Souljah
Fool me once; fool me twice; but shame on me if you fool me thrice.
— Nabil N. Jamal
The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
