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You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more. — Salman Rushdie
If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame… — Olusegun Obasanjo
Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture. — Salman Rushdie
It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without… — Luigi Pirandello
It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity. — Unknown Author
We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race. — Mark Twain
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. — Samuel Johnson
Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our sins, not thine,… — Peter Abelard
In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall remain, And cause… — Nicholas Grimald
Never shame to hear what you have nobly done — William Shakespeare
Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement… — Diane Arbus
The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all. — Edward Abbey
Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey;… — Dorothy Parker
I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used… — Adam Duritz
I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next… — Amy Winehouse
When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself. — Chinua Achebe
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. — Horace
The difference between me and Bono is that he's quite happy to go and flatter people to get what he wants and he's very good… — Thom Yorke
Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was… — Zora Neale Hurston
When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and lay it on… — Richard Baxter
By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames. — Emile M. Cioran
I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over… — William Tecumseh Sherman
My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like… — Desmond Tutu
After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only… — Terry Brooks
Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for "Ireland," and can… — James Connolly

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