Shame Quotes

I suppose Phil Collins offers something for everybody, and in hipdom that's not cool. But in the real world, there's no shame in that at all.

The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?

In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.

Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.

A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away.

Give your friend cause to blush, and you will be likely to lose him.

A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man." I love that line.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

Everybody's having fun, except me I'm the lonely one I live in shame.

There is no shame in scars, Ismae.

And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.

Have you ever seen The Goodbye Girl? Don’t watch it if you still want to enjoy romantic comedies. It makes every movie ever made starring Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock lash itself in shame.

Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores; And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."

I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.

We should all without shame enrol in the school of contemplative prayer.

It's a shame that humans don't come with reset buttons.

I don’t know, Sage. You threw yourself in the line of pepper spray for me. You must like me just a little bit.” “I— I figured it’d be a shame to ruin your pretty face,” I stammered.

Sadie, I can't intervene." He turned up his palms in frustration. "I told you when we first met, this isn't an actual physical body." "Shame," I mumbled. "What?" "Nothing. Go on.

Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there is absolutely no shame in needing others.

Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.

I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.

In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."

Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame.

The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.

It really is a shame that the truth is perceived as an extreme position.

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

Misery and shame are nearly allied.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?

I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.

A Dirty Shame was a crazy movie. I don't understand that movie at all. I don't get it, but I'd work with John Waters again in a heartbeat. He's just a delight.

While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.

Shame must be accepted to be effective.

Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.

Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.

If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?

I think half of what a trainer does is make you feel shame if you dont show up.

People of the cross? A symbol of shame has become our confidence.

The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together

Lovely place, shame about the people!

Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.