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William Shakespeare Quotes about Shame

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O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.684, BookCaps Study Guides

Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

1598-9 Bourbon, returning to the battle. HenryV, act 4, sc.5, l.19.

A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.

William Shakespeare (1836). “Select plays from Shakspeare; adapted for the use of schools and young persons: with notes from the best commentators. [6 plays”

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.250

Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!

William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.374

O shame, where is thy blush?

William Shakespeare (2003). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.106, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.746, Oxford University Press