Shame Quotes · Page 33

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“All through those years of war, the bread tasted of humiliation.”

— Stephen P. Kiernan

It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

— Faina Ranevskaya

“Laughing at yourself turns shame into play, mistakes into stories, and awkwardness into authenticity.”

— Pamela Cox

“Stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face.”

— Sabina Wurmbrand

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you for tripping me while I tried to run away.”

— Elizabeth C. Mock

Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.

— Damon Wayans

For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he…

— William Shakespeare

Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a…

— Amy Poehler

When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does…

— George D. Prentice

It was an embarrassment for me to be there, and for somebody to celebrate it, oh my God. I want to go…

— James Meredith

“The shame, embarrassment, feeling of low self-worth, and scores of "labels" we give ourselves are not fitting. I am beginning to see…

— Charles L. Bailey Jr

I immediately understood the general air of humiliation that comes with trying to do something as ridiculous as be an actor in…

— Adam Scott

Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles…

— Herbert Hoover

I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human…

— Delia Sherman

I think the car world can be quite intimidating sometimes. If people don't know too much about cars they often don't feel…

— Alex Hirsch

I'd say for sure though, read the fine print in the contract. Make sure after you defend your belt for however many…

— Benson Henderson

When I was asked: "Will shame do it?" Meaning: Will welfare people be shamed into getting respectable work? And I said that…

— Studs Terkel

O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest…

— Saint Basil

“The reality of grief is far different from what others see from the outside. There is pain in this world that you…

— Megan Devine

“He ran his palm up the curve of her back and then removed his arm from around her, amused at how swiftly…

— Catherine Anderson

My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until…

— William Graham Sumner

She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never…

— Paulo Coelho

You are an American, so you're hurt that other American citizens have been hurt, but you end up having to shoulder the…

— Mahershala Ali

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“My face filled with the warm glow of embarrassment preventing me from smiling back so I turned and ran away.”

— Nicci Greene

There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom.

— Jessica Sorensen

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

— W. C. Fields

Kids are ridiculous these days, when we were young, we took spelling tests, not pregnancy tests.

— Anonymous

I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.

— Julian Fellowes

“They had grown up on shame; it was the nutrient of their soil.”

— Elizabeth Strout

The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

— Paul Schrader

I don't agree that the Somnath Bharti incident has been an embarrassment.

— Arvind Kejriwal

Being # IGNORANT is not so much a SHAME, as being UNWILLING to LEARN to do things THE # RIGHT WAY.

— Shiv Khera

It would be a shame to go out with a hot girl you can't have a decent conversation with!

— Justin Bieber

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Lilly Singh

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

— John Wilmot

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice?... You won't fool me twice.

— Anonymous