Shame Quotes · Page 34

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

As soon as the people fix one Shame of the World, another turns up.

— E. W. Howe

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

— Nicci Greene

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Damon Wayans

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

— Jessica Sorensen

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

— Benedict Cumberbatch

The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by…

— Karl Kraus

I have lived in Kentucky all of my life. I am married to my high school sweetheart, David, a local police captain…

— Molly Harper

Shame, shame, shame. How many times have I told you not to be frightened? Have I not told you God looks after…

— Willis Goldbeck

You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult…

— Jeff Bridges

“The girl, whose name he never cared to get, disappeared on her walk of shame. Reluctant heels clopped across icy marble tiling…

— Adam Cesare

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all…

— Hilaire Belloc

“Life makes fools of us all sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to…

— Paul Murray

I know of a world that is sunk in shame, Where hearts oft faint and tire; But I know of a Name,…

— J. Chapman

“Often, her mate is the child of a narcissist, already indoctrinated to regard exploitation and disregard as love. Others lured by the…

— Elan Golomb

“I remember when my oldest son took his first step. My wife and I were so excited, but we expected him to…

— Lecrae Moore

You talk about the Pro-Life movement being one of the great shames of our nation. I think, if you want number two,…

— Jon Stewart

I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft.…

— Denis Leary

There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation…

— William S. Burroughs

“Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what…

— Cora Carmack

These nutbags, like Santorum and Bachmann, who make these people and especially young gay kids feel miserable, shame on them. They're quacks.…

— Howard Stern

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Stephen P. Kiernan

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

— Sabina Wurmbrand

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

— Pamela Cox

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

— Faina Ranevskaya

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

— Elizabeth C. Mock

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

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

“Shame is the landfill emotion. It's not organic, like joy. It was dumped there by somebody else.”

— Augusten Burroughs

Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

— Kevin Rose

I see your pretty face, Smashed against the bathroom floor! What a disgrace! Who do I feel sorry for?

— Korn

The newly passive George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.

— Tony Snow

We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.

— Mother Teresa

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

— Marianne Faithfull

The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

— Philip Sidney