Shame Quotes · Page 26

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

— Anonymous

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

— Mathieu Kerekou

“Shame does not have any effect on shameless or Shame does not have any effect on a shameless.”

— Ehsan Sehgal

Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

— William Shakespeare

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I definitely have shame and embarrassment, it's about the way I handle it.

— Rachel Sennott

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

— Samuel Richardson

When I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've…

— Kate Winslet

“I had a feeling of shame about my grief, as if I was making false amends for the bitterness I felt towards…

— Michael Ignatieff

“The only emotion I felt was shame. For him, for myself. Again I had trusted, and again I had betrayed and been…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

How vast the benefits divine which we in Christ possess! We are redeemed from guilt and shame and called to holiness. But…

— Augustus Toplady

There's a tremendous sense of shame that people who are lonely feel. I say that as someone who felt ashamed of being…

— Vivek Murthy

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in…

— Bernard de Mandeville

I'd love to make more money in America, that's the heart of it. I make much more money in Europe. It's a…

— Marianne Faithfull

I don't get to go home as much as I used to, which is a shame. But I don't mind because my…

— Niall Horan

“THIS IS WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING; HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MUSCULAR;…

— Agnostic Zetetic

“What daily life is like for “a multiple” Imagine that you have periods of “lost time.” You may find writings or drawings…

— Alison Miller

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

“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

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Jane Austen

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

— Laura Gentile

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

— Anonymous

“She is not for you. She is a wild one--wild, without shame. This is not a bride for a rabbi".”

— Bernard Malamud

They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

— William Hazlitt

“This shame has nothing to do with He or She. It's the being mortal - how shall I say it? ... insufficient.”

— C.S. Lewis

Trade sales are the bulk of exits, and there's no shame in that. Sometimes, it's exactly the right thing to do.

— Caterina Fake

“Face it, dude. You nearly did sex on God's table. You're already shame spiralling big-time.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

If my husband cheated on me and embarrassed me like that, I will embarrass him more than he could ever imagine.

— Anna Benson

“Shame lies. All the time. About everything. Don’t believe your shame.”

— Scott Stabile

There's no shame in still loving your ex. It's a shame when you deny being in love with him/her.

— Gian Lewis Joseph

I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

— Marcel Duchamp

“Shame I do feel. And I know there is something all wrong about me—believe me. Sometimes I shock myself.”

— Sophocles

That walk of shame when you fail at throwing a ball of paper into the trash bin...

— Anonymous

So you decide to make your stand. Step up and put the world to shame.

— Zendaya Coleman

I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.

— Vincent de Paul

Believe it or not, the worst thing to hear from your parents is 'I'm Disappointed in you.'

— Anonymous

“In the night I come to you and it seems a shame to waste my deepest shudders on a wall of a…

— Carolyn Forche