Best Shame Words
1581 Shame quotes by 1160 unique authors
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There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the…
— Philip Caputo
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These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love.…
— Marina Tsvetaeva
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Although wrongs have been done to me, I live in hopes. I have not got two hearts....Now we are together again to make peace. My…
— Black Kettle
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Ain't that a shame how they f-ck up ya name.
— Lil Boosie
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Jesus, as a philosopher is wonderful. There's no greater role model, in my view, than Jesus Christ. It's just a shame that most of the…
— Bill Maher
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The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple…
— H. L. Mencken
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To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.
— Al-Shafi‘i
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It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.
— Henry Lawson
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It's no shame to fall down, but it is a shame to just stay down.
— Unknown Author
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich…
— Jean Lorrain
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As Muslims it is our duty to condemn the killings and our duty to ensure that those on the fringe do not shame our community…
— Iqbal Sacranie
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I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label. I…
— George Carlin
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War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one…
— Milan Kundera
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The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.
— J P Donleavy
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What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent…
— William Hazlitt
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What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which…
— Albert Camus
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When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital…
— Thurgood Marshall
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
— Ben Jonson
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The government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war too.
— Winston Churchill
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