Best Shame Quotes
1581 Shame quotes by 1160 unique authors
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are…
— Langston Hughes
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We've got a nation of people who have one eye looking out for the next speed camera, another looking for a speed limit sign and…
— Paul Smith
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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can…
— Sun Tzu
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To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him…
— Lupe Velez
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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.
— Louis Kronenberger
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;…
— William Blake
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the…
— Oscar Wilde
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Shame is pride's cloak.
— William Blake
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When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.
— Louis XI of France
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Courage has you say in a defiant spirit you can take everything from me, you could cut me deep, you could render me in shame…
— Cory Booker
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Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.
— Walter Hagen
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Shame is not your friend. It depletes your power. Let go of shame and embrace your magnificence.
— Judith Orloff
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See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
— Seneca the Younger
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Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame…
— Blaise Pascal
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Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that…
— Susan Sontag
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The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
— Rod Steiger
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Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the…
— Thomas Adams
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Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.
— Tony Blair
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