shame quotes

• Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? (George Sand) [joy/suffering/shame]
• Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. (Benjamin Franklin) [being/shame/being]
• Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. (William Blake) [shame/fame]
• 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) [shame/virtue/willpower]
• Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame. (Marcus Cicero) [character/shame]
• To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things ( Confucius) [wisdom/shame]
• Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. (Benjamin Franklin) [being/shame/being]
• Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. (Benjamin Franklin) [shame/being]
• Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame. (Benjamin Franklin) [shame]
• See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) [darkness/remember/shame]
• The public have neither shame or gratitude. (William Hazlitt) [shame]
• It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. ( Horace) [shame/wounds]
• Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue. (Samuel Johnson) [hope-disappointment/shame/loss/mind]
• Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. (Samuel Johnson) [shame/fear/men/conscience]
• 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) [basis/shame/mistake/humiliation]
• 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]
• Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [speak/shame/think]
• It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! (Luigi Pirandello) [women/look/shame]
• Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies. (Alexander Pope) [shame/condition]
• Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? (George Sand) [joy/suffering/shame]
• Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. ( Seneca) [shame/right]
• O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame! (William Shakespeare) [night/notary/shame/stage]
• While you live tell the truth and shame the devil. (William Shakespeare) [truth/shame]
• We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. (George Bernard Shaw) [shame/experience]
• Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory. (Sydney Smith) [shame]
• 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) [shame/virtue]
• Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat. (Laurence Sterne) [absurd/right/shame/defeat]
• Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. (Mark Twain) [writers/shame]
• Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago. (John Wesley) [sermons/shame/sermons]
• The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. (Oscar Wilde) [books/books/shame]
• I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself. (Drew Barrymore) [look/shame/look/love]

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