Shame Quotes

The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

Paul Newman

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Jonathan Swift

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

Jonathan Swift

Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Hector Hugh Munro

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.

St. Gregory The Great

'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honor enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.'

C.S. Lewis

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

Jodi Picoult

Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.

William Makepeace Thackeray

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Charles Dickens

Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

John Lyly

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Edward Young

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

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

Charles Dickens

There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out.

Mae West

Shame is worse than death.

Proverb

If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may-no matter how generous and good his nature- one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so.

Charles Dickens