Comrade Quote by Homer

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

— Benjamin Franklin

Shame is the dying embers of virtue.

— Josh Billings

Your only shame is to have shame.

— Amy Tan

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

— Beth Ditto

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

— Confucius

When I was asked: "Will shame do it?" Meaning: Will welfare people be shamed into getting respectable work? And I said that shame plays…

— Studs Terkel

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence…

— Hesiod

I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.

— A. J. Jacobs

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

— Aristotle

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

— Livy

“[T]he principal suffering of the poor is shame and disgrace.”

— Gregory Boyle

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

— Pericles