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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

When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it. — Robert Henri

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

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America? — Glenn Beck

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 shame
and is something precious. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people. — Tucker Max

Shame makes self-acceptance and self-love impossible. — Bell Hooks

Key Learning: Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. That's why it loves perfectionists - we're so easy to keep quiet. If — Brene Brown

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

I think that shame is a universal, paralyzing, painful emotion. — Brene Brown

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

There is no shame in having been the woman I was. She made me the woman I am. — Julie-Anne

I wonder how much shame people can hold before they ignite. — Corrine Jackson

I don't know if he'll even look at me, because I can barely look at myself. — Gail McHugh

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

Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame. — Bob Dylan

I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high. — Jerry Stahl

A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame. — Solomon

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

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return. — Thiruvalluvar

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

If not yet lost to all the sense of shame. — Homer

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame. — Dolly Parton

I never learned hate at home or shame. I had to go to school for that. — Dick Gregory

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

Death is a unique opponent, in that death always wins......There's no shame in surrender when it's time to stop fighting. --- Kal (the tattoo artist) — Steven Rowley

And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it. — T. S. Eliot

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

It is a shame that what happens today already happened yesterday, and will happen again tomorrow; it will continue to happen until the end of time, or — Paulo Coelho

But a man's walking-around body can be a ghost a whole lot easier than his spirit can. — Sarah Porter

My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do. — Brene Brown

Survival is your strength not your shame. — T. S. Eliot

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. — George Chapman

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field. — Tori Amos

Your eyelashes make mine want to commit suicide from shame. — Kasie West

The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness. — C.S. Lewis

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 name
used 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

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed. — Bob Dole

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

Kill me once, shame on you. Kill me twice, shame on me. Kill my brother? Oh, it's on. And you are not going to enjoy it. — Mira Grant

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows. — Amanda Palmer

If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us. — Dan Seals

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

The portrait was to bear the burden of his shame: that was all. — Oscar Wilde

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

That's the shame about Miles Copeland; he's evil, but he's got a heart of gold. — Dave Wakeling

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

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. — Hesiod

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

I FEEL NO SHAME ABOUT HAVING PAINTINGS BE AS GRANDIOSE AND RIDICULOUS AS POSSIBLE. — Laura Owens

There is no shame in falling down but there is pride in getting back up. — Lilly Singh

Everyone needs something else once in a while. There's no shame in that. — Jill Shalvis

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it. — Mitch Albom

My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame. — Henry Constable

Let go with me. Let me comfort you with my body ... there's no shame in forgetting for a night even if you know you'll remember in the morning. — Tiffany Reisz