Quotes About Shame

Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.

Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away.

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .