Shame Quotes

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

It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears

Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

Shame is the dying embers of virtue.

I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.

I gave up shame a long time ago.

Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS. There's no shame in being tested for AIDS.

A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy.

Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.

There's no shame in being crazy.

Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.

Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.

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

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

They say men have a sexual thought every 20 seconds. The other 19 are shame.

When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.

And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless

O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.

Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.

I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.

It's a shame, she had me convinced that she could've been a dime. I guess I lost another one to the wintertime.

Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

Openness is the first step toward recovery... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.

That's the shame about Miles Copeland; he's evil, but he's got a heart of gold.

Less shame a greater fault would palliate.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.

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

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.