Shame Quotes · Page 12

I'm not very much of a 'name it and shame it' kind of guy.

— Sonny Perdue

“There is no greater humiliation than hunger.”

— Vaddey Ratner

Tell troth and shame the devil.

— Ben Jonson

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

— William Cowper

He who borrows will have to pay again with shame or loss.

— Vikrant Parsai

I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.

— Sally Field

Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

— Nigel Dennis

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

— Pierre Corneille

I think it's a shame that all we talk about is the one-and-done players.

— Tom Izzo

“You call it shame and regret. I call it research and development.”

— Cara Addison

It should be a badge of shame to have an A-rating from the NRA.

— John Hickenlooper

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

— Marcus Brigstocke

“you can’t cling to God’s grace and your shame at the same time.”

— Melissa Tagg

“But shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.”

— Salman Rushdie

“To not realize one's dreams is a shame; to not reach for them is a tragedy”

— Jason Alan

Those who do not realise humiliation achieve a lot tremendously, I'm starting to think my pride is in the way.

— Daniyal Butt

For me, a trans writer, Knausgaard taught me about writing shame as liberation from it - a literary version of the kind…

— Torrey Peters

It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn…

— Roger Zelazny

“That black pool of shame bubbled up in my head again. Then, a spark came along and set it alight. The choice…

— David Wong

“There's a feeling of shame that is more painful than any other in life; it's the shame felt by the victim who…

— Sándor Márai

“Too many men I know experience shame because society places pressure on them to withhold emotion: emotion and sensitivity is weak. I…

— Natalie Brenner

The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere…

— Horace

I've always enjoyed visiting India and we usually go to Mumbai or Delhi a few times during the season. It's a shame…

— Nico Hulkenberg

A lot of people body shame me because I am very thin. They say I have a 'boy's body,' or that I…

— Ananya Panday

I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only…

— Jennifer Egan

My dad was a theatrical guy. He wore a scuba suit one time because he said so-and-so was in the tank with…

— Maura Tierney

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness…

— Anonymous

“There she stood, hiding; the mother without child, the voiceless woman full of anger. Her smoked nails hammered her evaporated heart snivelling…

— Laura Gentile

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To…

— Jane Austen

I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“S: But Chris, I think his embarrassment isn't in relation to you or me but to himself. What can he do? C:…

— Chris Kraus

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you…

— Marjane Satrapi

“There’s no shame in doing what you need to do to survive.”

— Sloane Kennedy

Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races.

— Tupac Shakur

“Too many non-achievers confuse humility with humiliation.”

— Orrin Woodward

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

— Sherman Alexie

Fool me once, your loss. End of story.

— Jhiess Krieg

With publicity comes humiliation.

— Tama Janowitz

It is a shame to keep so many wives

— Pradeepkumardevi

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

— Maya Angelou