Shame Quotes - Page 17

Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?

Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

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

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.

I think our culture promotes fear and shame.

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.

The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place.

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

It really is a shame that the truth is perceived as an extreme position.

I know what you're thinking... and you oughtta be ashamed of yourself.

that which is begun in self-confidence will end in shame.

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic hope that this time the fear will be put to shame and a modest 10 percent frail awareness of the possibility of love. I don't fall in love any more. Just like I don't get the mumps.

O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.

Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.

I'm certainly not ashamed to say that I was on some anti-depressant medications. I believe there are times in life where we have to raise our hand and say I need help. I found a good doctor.

If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.

Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.

I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.