SHAME QUOTES II

quotations about shame

The only shame is to have none.

BLAISE PASCAL

Pensées

Tags: Blaise Pascal


Where there is no shame, there is no honor.

MARTIN OPITZ

attributed, Day's Collacon


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.

KEN KESEY

Sometimes a Great Notion

Tags: Ken Kesey


Shame makes the world go around.

MORISSEY

"Shame Is The Name"


Shame is an uncomfortable companion, it makes you want to climb out of your skin.

ZOE FITZGERALD CARTER

"Charlottesville rage rooted in white shame", San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 2017


Shame ... ever sticks close to the ribs of honor.

THOMAS MIDDLETON

The Mayor of Queenborough; Or Hengist, King of Kent


One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

LOUIS KRONENBERGER

Company Manners

Tags: Louis Kronenberger


I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

PLAUTUS

Bacchides


Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

SALMAN RUSHDIE

Shame

Tags: Salman Rushdie


Love taught him shame, and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

JOHN DRYDEN

Cymon and Iphigenia

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I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

JODI PICOULT

Handle with Care


You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.

SALMAN RUSHDIE

Shame


Though honor might possess certain advantages, yet shame had others, and not inferior.

THOMAS MANN

The Magic Mountain

Tags: Thomas Mann


Shame need not crouch
In such an earth as ours
Stand--stand erect;
The universe is yours.

EMILY DICKINSON

"Not with a Club, the Heart is broken"

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Shame is the most powerful master emotion. It's the fear that we aren't good enough.

DEBRA CAMPBELL

"Peeling the Onion of Abuse and Shame", Huffington Post, September 14, 2017


Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess what it must be to live the life of a human being.

OSAMU DAZAI

No Longer Human

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It is safest to be moderately base--to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

SYDNEY SMITH

The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith

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He who hath shame seldom sins.

TALMUD

attributed, Day's Collacon


Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation!

JOHN BUNYAN

The Pilgrim's Progress

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Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

BULWER

attributed, Day's Collacon