Quotes About Shame

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

It is a public scandal that gives offence and it is no sin to sin in secret.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential - generosity, service, self-sacrifice, unselfishness and duty.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No, if it were, men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder, though, and is punished as such.

The public have neither shame nor gratitude.

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

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

O shame! Where is they blush?

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

Shame is heavier than a bag of salt.

Svaka istinska, velika strast traži samo?u i bezimenost. ?ovek koji služi svojoj strasti želi da ostane nevi?en i neznan, nasamo sa predmetom svoje strasti, i o svemu drugom voli i ume više i bolje da govori nego o tome što je glavni predmet njegovih misli i želja. ?ak i porok ima svoj stid i svoje obzire, iako naopake i neobi?ne.

If you are a woman, you may need to forgive those whom you have loved or those who refused to love you; those who have hurt you, shamed you, and abandoned you; or those who left you scarred or wounded.

Sometimes the unspeakable can come from the decent. And sometimes, it's possible to make yourself decent out of the unspeakable.

For I am no orator. What would I have said if they had let me go on? That it is worse to beat a man's feet to pulp than to kill him in combat? That it brings shame on everyone when a girl is permitted to flog a man? That spectacles of cruelty corrupt the hearts of the innocent?

Baz? insanlar haks?z yere ac? çektiÄŸinde,' derdim kendi kendime, 'ac?lar?na tan?k olanlar?n kaderi bunun utanc?n? hissetmektir.' Ama bu düÅŸüncenin verdiÄŸi sahte avuntu beni rahatlatam?yordu. -Barbarlar? Beklerken

James and John wanted the glory, but not the cup of shame; the crown, but not the cross; the role of master, but not servant.

Eve: Where's Mister Scary? Roarke: Summerset has the night off. Eve: You mean the house is Summerset-free? Damn shame we have to waste it with work.

then simply held it while shame washed

She does not reply. She would rather hide her face, and he knows why. Because of the disgrace. Because of the shame. That is what their visitors have achieved; that is what they have done to this confidant, modern young woman. Like a stain the story is spreading across the district. Not her story to spread but theirs: they are its owners. How they put her in her place, how they showed her what a woman was for.