Shame Quotes · Page 32

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

— Glenn Beck

“Shame to him whose cruel striking, kills for thoughts of his own liking.”

— William Shakespeare

First time you broke my heart SHAME on you¦ The second time you broke my heart SHAME on me¦

— Anonymous

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

— Ray Bradbury

“   23Pride ends in humiliation,         while humility brings honor.”

— Stephen Arterburn

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

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.

— D. H. Lawrence

When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.

— Chinua Achebe

Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by…

— Confucius

Growing up, my experience with transsexualism was nothing but shame. It was something very hidden, and dealt with very privately.

— Laura Jane Grace

Between celebrities such as Michelle Obama, Amy Schumer, Gabrielle Union, Brooke Shields and others sharing their stories, it seems the shame of…

— Alisyn Camerota

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a…

— Anonymous

I'm first-generation American - my people came over on boats - and I think it's a shame to close the door on…

— F. Murray Abraham

“There is the family of our birth and then there is a more noble world to which we really belong; the richness…

— Lewis Hyde

Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there…

— Rick Warren

And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had…

— Rachel Vincent

“Of course I refuse. I will have absolutely nothing to do with it. I don't care what shame comes on you. You…

— Oscar Wilde

“But there is also something inherently shameful in the rescuer-rescued relationship - the humiliation of being reduced to depending on another person…

— Dara Horn

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by…

— George MacDonald

There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must be demons. In the isles we…

— George R. R. Martin

“March 28, 1987: Today I read in the New York Times that all of the officers who killed Michael Stewart were again…

— Keith Haring

“We may believe that anxiety and fear don't concern us because we avoid experiencing them. We may keep the scope of our…

— Harriet Lerner

Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I…

— Simon McBurney

“The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.”

— Bryant McGill

“No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.”

— Agnostic Zetetic

Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me fool me thrice we are unbreakable.

— Anonymous

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

— Jock Sturges

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

— Jacqueline Susann

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

— Martial

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

— Anonymous

“the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

— Lloyd Banks

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

— Dirk Nowitzki

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I'm going to kick your ass.”

— Lisa Roecker

But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.

— Thomas Day

I have no qualms: no shame, no guilt, no embarrassment. I tend to act out a lot.

— Brendon Urie

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

— Paul Tillich

The walk of shame at the store when you have to put something back because your mom says no.

— Anonymous

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame...

— Dodie Smith