Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Shame.
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Moli
The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.
Lynn Swann
Oh! no! we never mention her, her name is never heard; my lips are now forbid to speak, that once familiar word.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
As a child grows in an environment in which his needs and longings for specialness and warm relatedness are consistently frustrated, he begins to turn away from his own needs in depression and shame. We can imagine the young child wondering, What is wrong with me that I get so little response from my mother? The two possible answers are I am too defective and unworthy of love, and there is something wrong with what I am asking for. In both cases, there is something wrong, either with the child himself or with his needs and desires. This experience of unimportance or wrongness is the common relational backdrop for vulnerability and susceptibility to shame.
Andrew P. Morrison, The Culture
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
Salvador Dali
In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
Lord Chesterfield
