Ashamed Quotes · Page 23

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

— Baron de Montesquieu

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

— Sophocles

“It’s only forbidden, but nothing to be ashamed of”

— D.S. Wrights

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind

— Horace Mann

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed.

— Mason Cooley

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

— J. K. Rowling

If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

— Dirk Nowitzki

The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn…

— William Proxmire

My constituents don't want more refugees. I'm not ashamed to represent these voters. I'm proud of it.

— Geert Wilders

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

— Loretta Lynn

The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and…

— Walter Kirn

I'm ashamed of what has happened to Canada. And I'm not leaving a $1.5 trillion deficit to my kids. No chance in…

— Kevin O'Leary

I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and…

— John Waters

A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them…

— Arca

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I…

— John Fowles

With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to…

— Nathan Myhrvold

It's OK to be yourself in the ways that you're ashamed of feeling, like you shouldn't be yourself in the ways that…

— Lola Young

I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I…

— John Irving

Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that…

— Mary C. Ames

The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of…

— Hozier

We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won’t all come true; we won’t always make it; but…

— Tommy Douglas

I was never a hundred percent comfortable with the women I was hanging with because I was afraid they'd find out that…

— Taye Diggs

Not displaying your affection openly is a sign that you are ashamed of who you are with.

— Anonymous

If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.

— Winston Churchill

Don't be ashamed to let your conscience be your guide.

— Aaron Neville

I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

— Michel de Montaigne

I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.

— Alexander Borodin

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

— Christopher Hampton

It’s a simple truth that a secret is something you’re ashamed of.

— Deb Caletti

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

— Philip Jose Farmer

“I hid my wounds because I was ashamed...but now I know that I was also afraid of being reduced..”

— Anna Quindlen

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy.

— Deepak Chopra

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

— Benjamin Franklin

I am ashamed of some of Democrats in my own party.

— Donna Brazile

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.

— Kathryn Lasky

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.

— John Wayne

Judi Dench should be ashamed of herself for being so talented and working so much.

— Judy Parfitt