Shame Quotes

There is no shame in impulse.

— Douglas Coupland

“Our Shame and”

— Ronald Rolheiser

I don't have any shame.

— Conrad Black

The guilty catch themselves

— Proverb

“The shame of sins!”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“My own ignorance shames me.”

— Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Nature's hasty conscience.

— Maria Edgeworth

Shame is the shadow of love.

— PJ Harvey

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.

— Anonymous

“Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Shame can be self-indulgence too.

— Eleanor Clark

I think I'm somebody who experiences a good deal of shame.

— Noah Reid

You have such a pretty, it's a shame you're such a bitch.

— Anonymous

It would be a shame if the BBC didn't exist.

— James May

“I want to be split open and reminded of shame.”

— Kris Kidd

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

— Oliver Goldsmith

When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

— Malcolm X

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

— Tom Price

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

— Clement of Alexandria

It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears

— Joseph Hall

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

— William Pitt

Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.

— Sophocles

It is more shameful to deny fear then it is to run from danger.

— Jake

“If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you're proud of them, celebrate.”

— Dennis Prager

He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree,…

— Janet Morris

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn…

— Elizabeth McGovern

Shame: We all have it. It's that gremlin that says 'I'm not enough.' Or, if you're feeling pretty confident,...'ooh, who do you…

— Brené Brown

I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is…

— Kate Bush

It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.

— Michael Johnson

“Many a man has been ashamed of his wicked attempts, when he has been repulsed, that would never have been ashamed of…

— Samuel Richardson

If we can somehow start to remove shame from struggle, if we can truly see people and care for them as our…

— Stephanie Land

“Patrick and I were about as different as two people could possibly be. Nothing embarrasses Patrick very much, and everything embarrasses me.…

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

“Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe…

— Robert Heinlein

“I’ve realized, though, we can either choose to be vulnerable or have moments of vulnerability sneak up on us. Like when you’re…

— Katie Kiesler

May God forgive us for the times when we as individuals and as a Church failed to seek out and care for…

— Sean Brady

The only crying shame about it is, when good things happen to you, you run short of time. It takes the same…

— Barbara Mandrell

I admire some of the people on the screen today, but most of them look like everybody else. In our day we…

— Myrna Loy

The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be…

— Isak Dinesen

“All at once I am so tired of this-of the constant threat of humiliation and pain, the fear of exposure, of trying…

— Christina Baker Kline

The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and…

— Norman Mailer