Shame Quotes · Page 4

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's…

— Harold Prince

“In comparison to what I've suffered from myself, the humiliation and suffering inflicted on me by others vanishes into insignificance.”

— Anonymous

“In the moment when you are hurt… Sit with yourself, let yourself feel the hurt, acknowledge the shames it touched and accept…

— Drishti Bablani

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

— Jim Palmer

“Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering,…

— Ashim Shanker

Anyone can lose a fight. That doesn't bother me. But the shame that comes afterwards is unbearable.

— Tony Bellew

I have been subjected to constant harassment and humiliation by Mr. Abad Ponda with his sexist remarks and insulting comments.

— Rhea Pillai

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

— Fred Vargas

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming…

— Oliver Goldsmith

There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

“Don't dare presume there's shame in the lot of a woman who carries on.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Shame is pride's cloak.

— William Blake

Courageous? Courageous would have been admitting weakness and leaving Dauntless, no matter what shame accompanied it. Pride is what killed Al, and…

— Veronica Roth

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

— Francois Rabelais

[To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!

— Carrie Nation

I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a…

— Joseph O'Neill

Shame is the raincoat over the soul repelling the living water of Jesus that would otherwise establish us as the beloved of…

— Andrew Comiskey

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“What kind of one-night stand takes your car the next morning? It’s called the walk of shame, not grand theft auto.”

— Piper Rayne

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

— George Sand

“Slowly, I'm beginning to realise that what happened to me wasn't my fault, that I was taken advantage of by a group…

— Girl A

That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's…

— Dawn French

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

— Hermann Hesse

The toy business began to drive the [Lucasfilm] empire. It’s a shame. They make three times as much on toys as they…

— Gary Kurtz

It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray,…

— Oscar Wilde