Shame Quotes

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

My feelings for you shame me into silence.

[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.

I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that.

An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half crazy with their own.

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.

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.

I believe, Eragon, that you are full of love and that you are looking for one who will reciprocate your affection. No shame exists in that.

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.

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

Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.

If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.

With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.

Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.

There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.

Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

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

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

I just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame or fear of letting that out.

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

Do not be ashamed of help.