Shame Quotes

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. (Benjamin Franklin)
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. View quote
Samuel Johnson
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. View quote
George Soros
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. View quote
William Cowper
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. View quote
John Updike
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable. View quote
Howard Zinn
The public have neither shame or gratitude. View quote
William Hazlitt
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. View quote
Edmund Burke
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. (Alfred Kinsey)
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. View quote
Charles Barkley
Here dead we lie 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. View quote
A. E. Housman
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Because Impudence is a Vice, it does not follow that Modesty is a Virtue; it is built upon Shame, a Passion in our Nature, and may be either Good or Bad according to the Actions perform'd from that Motive. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory, - nothing so expensive as glory. View quote
Sydney Smith
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. View quote
Johannes Kepler
The voice of the intelligence is soft and weak, said Freud. It 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 hissed away by hate, and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. View quote
Karl Menninger
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that. View quote
Dick Gregory
The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination. View quote
Norman Mailer
There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again. (George W. Bush)
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness. View quote
Marcus Garvey
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue. View quote
Charles Kingsley