Best Shame Sayings

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Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt. — Jonathan Swift
We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame. — Ugo Betti
The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound. — Ben Jonson
There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones. — Albert Camus
It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings. — John Donne
Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught. — Brooks Atkinson
They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame. — William Shakespeare
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame. — Plautus
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh! — William Shakespeare
You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men… — Khalil Gibran
Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within. — George Saunders
When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that… — Winston Churchill
Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening. — Frank Moore Colby
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer… — Joseph Conrad
Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all,… — Mark Twain
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress… — Samuel Johnson
Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one... — C.S. Lewis
Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to… — Charles Barkley
I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their… — Sean Penn
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. — Izaak Walton
My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage! — William Shakespeare

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