Shame Quotes

We never forgive those who make us blush.

JeanFrancois De La Harpe

My hands are of your colour; but I shame To wear a heart so white.

William Shakespeare

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

Milan Kundera

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

Francis H. Bradley

When all our deeds of glory are laid in front of Thee,

Connie Dover

Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.

Bernard Mandeville

There's a blush for won t, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.

John Keats

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Edmund Burke

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Edmund Burke

He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde

Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde

One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

Oscar Wilde

The only shame is to have none

Blaise Pascal

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Robin G. Collingwood

Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.

Paul Chatfield

When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a toddler. What I wanted to say to you, but didn't, was this:

Jodi Picoult

To show his nervousness was not shameful; only to admit it.

Ernest Hemingway

The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman's original nature left in her still; and when she heard a light step approaching the door opposite to that by which she had entered, and thought of the wide contrast which the small room would in another moment contain, she felt burdened with the sense of her own deep shame: and shrunk as though she could scarcely bear the presence of her with whom she had sought this interview.

Charles Dickens