Shameful Quotes

208 quotes by 185 authors

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head… — Russell Baker
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry
Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off. — Julie Burchill
The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres. — Marcus Aurelius
Seek the simplest in all things, in food, clothing, without being ashamed of poverty. For a great part of the world lives in poverty. Do… — Gennadius of Constantinople
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. — George Farquhar
Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved… — Bernard DeVoto
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance,… — Albert Camus
We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is… — George Eliot
Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the… — Thomas Jefferson
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon,… — Edward Dahlberg
We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique,… — Dean Koontz
I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret… — Jamie Lee Curtis
And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private… — Warren Beatty
Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down, — George H. W. Bush

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