Pamela Quote by Samuel Richardson

“When you make a man ashamed, you make him dangerous.”

— Chris Cleave

“Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action for no other reason than because he knows he…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was…

— Jack Vance

“He should have been repulsed, angry, even disgusted by his actions, but he wasn’t. Scared shitless, yes, but fear was healthy, wasn’t it?”

— Ann Lister

“The claim that every man kills the thing he loves seemed to him a wild guess compared with the near certainty of a man…

— Edward St Aubyn

“This explained to me--and I suppose, forgave me--my inability to see the face of this man, because whoever must deceive us in order to…

— Michael Ennis

“His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.”

— Eleanor Catton

“He had never said as much before, and I must admit that his words gave me keen pleasure, for I had often been piqued…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“A developed and decent man cannot be vain without a boundless exactingness towards himself and without despising himself at moments to the point of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Do you know there is a limit of ignominy, beyond which man's consciousness of shame cannot go, and after which begins satisfaction in shame?”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But he knew what was wrong with him; he was ashamed of himself and afraid of them- afraid of the society whe so despised.”

— Ryünosuke Akutagawa

“I had not then learned the measure of “man’s inhumanity to man,” nor to what limitless extent of wickedness he will go for the…

— Solomon Northup