Shame Quotes

Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.

This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame

As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make the Cross of Christ of none effect.

Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.

Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other.

Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder.

We live in a culture where it's just delicious to shame and blame. We have what I call sometimes a "smugtocracy."

God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.

In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.

The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.

It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game.

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

The Water said to the dirty one, “Come here.” The dirty one said, “I am too ashamed.” The water replied, “How will your shame be washed away without me?

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

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.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.

We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!

Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes

Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the shame and reproach will be very great.