Shame Quotes

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

I have no shame around the fact that I can be shot into suicidal feelings by certain people's treatment of me. I am no different to any other person, I therefore act as I believe any other person should be free to.

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

We had this party in New York, and there were a lot of gay men there dressed up as the characters. I showed up just looking like myself, but it was a real case of shame. They looked so fantastic. We could never quite live up to it.

After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.

It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

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.

The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together.

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.

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.

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

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

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.