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- What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient… — Saint John Chrysostom
- When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the… — Paul of the Cross
- What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the… — Logan Pearsall Smith
- Molly works because, while Watson is ‘the audience’, Molly is every woman of a certain age sitting at home on the settee… — Louise Brealey
- That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats
- Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women… — Gustave Flaubert
- There is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed,… — B. C. Forbes
- The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury… — Barbara Ehrenreich
- We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one… — Louis Kronenberger
- Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because… — Iain Pears
- One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy… — Gustave Flaubert
- The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be… — Milan Kundera