Shame Quotes - Page 11

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

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

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

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

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

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

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

I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of 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.

Malevolence is shameful but satisfying.

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

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

I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.

Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.

I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

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.

A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

I feel no shame at being found still owning a share when the bottom of the market comes…I would go much further than that. I should say that it is from time to time the duty of a serious investor to accept the depreciation of his holdings with equanimity and without reproaching himself. … An investor…should be aiming primarily at long-period results, and should be solely judged by these.

The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat, the righteous and the wretched, the powerful and the pathetic.

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

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

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

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.