Shame Quotes

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

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.

I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.

I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.

You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.

It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

I don't get to go home as much as I used to, which is a shame. But I don't mind because my mum moved over to London to look after me. I rented her a house just around the corner.

The only shame is to have none.

I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.

Shame, shame, shame. How many times have I told you not to be frightened? Have I not told you God looks after all his children?

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.

I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.

I promise not to become a source of shame for you.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book.