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Quotes About Shamefaced

I lay, shamefaced and embarrassed, in my bed. Which is a deeply unusual place for me to feel shamefaced and embarrassed, and anyone who says otherwise is a bloody liar.
~ Danny Wallace
Shug say, What, too shamefaced to put singing and dancing and fucking together? She laugh. That's the reason they call what us sing the devil's music. Devils love to fuck.
~ Alice Walker
a shamefaced world of precautions and barriers which may avert evil, but which do not seem to bring good...
~ E.M. Forster
at the end there was presented to the girl the complete picture of a cheerless, loveless world in which the young rush to destruction until they learn better—a shamefaced world of precautions and barriers which may avert evil, but which do not seem to bring good
~ E.M. Forster
British and French patriotism are completely different emotions. Ours is a bit shamefaced and populist, theirs is the province of the intellectual.
~ Sebastian Faulks
Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.
~ Margaret Deland
The others all followed, dispirited and shamefaced, and only much later were they able to regain their former affectation of indifference.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The tyrannosaurus looked a little shamefaced - but only a little, for dinosaurs would rather drown in tar than admit they're wrong. That unfortunate attitude played a key role in their extinction. Naturally, they have steadfastly refused to own up to it, so I cannot tell you where it all went reptiles-up.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.
~ Louise Bogan