Shame Quotes · Page 43

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.

— Randy Harrison

I thought it was ridiculous that I was being paid less than a cameraman, and I wanted to shame them. And I…

— Diana Rigg

“I wonder how much shame people can hold before they ignite.”

— Corrine Jackson

I don't believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.

— Penelope Keith

Don't be ashamed of finding out who your fake friends are, be happy for never being one of them.

— Anonymous

Actually I love acting in commercials and I see no shame in that.

— Alexander Ovechkin

“the “human need for transcendence should be met with minimal embarrassments to reason,”

— Adam Begley

It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

— Lightnin' Hopkins

The Water said to the dirty one, “Come here.” The dirty one said, “I am too ashamed.” The water replied, “How will…

— Rumi

I just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame…

— Ray Liotta

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 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

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

— Michael Ignatieff

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

— Kate Winslet

If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is…

— Gail Sheehy

I believe in humanity - not just you or Mother, but all mankind. Do I sound like a preacher or a cheap…

— F. Sionil José

“I'm disappointed in myself. In my life. All my life, everything I tried, I only got halfway there. You try to take…

— Michael Chabon

We just did a bunch of songs, and there was a lot of enthusiasm for the songs that we made. We didn't…

— Andrew Wyatt

Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there…

— Anonymous

The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red…

— Bobby Fischer

Advertising agencies don't care about a better world in the end. They are servants of their client: what the client wants is…

— Oliviero Toscani

Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.

— Bill Cosby

“There is nothing shameful in wanting, Venetia. There's only shame in not getting.”

— Karen Hawkins

“Am I on your walk of shame? You did sleep with the right MacGregor, didn’t you?”

— Michelle M. Pillow

You put the City Of Lights to shame with those beautiful eyes of yours.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Its not about winning the game, what matters is that YOU never QUIT despite ALL the shame !

— Anonymous

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

— Robert Southey

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

— Simone Weil

“There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.”

— Anonymous

“There's nothing like failure and humiliation to make you teachable.”

— Gary Heavin

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?

— Richard Aldington

Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame

— Dean Cavanagh

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

— Desmond Tutu

I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.

— Drew Barrymore

“Like a dog!" he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.”

— Franz Kafka