Shame Quotes

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

It's a shame anyone had to lose that. What a great rivalry.

President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame.

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.

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

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.

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.

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.

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.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

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.