Best 857 quotes in «shame quotes» category

Be clever and do not build walls, because in the future they will bring only shame to you!

Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.

Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.

Blowfish, did you say?" "Ah, no. Blofis, actually." "Oh, I see," Poseidon said. "A shame. I quite like blowfish.

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

Branne's [Pavlovic] parents wanted him to become a taxi driver, but he became a stand-up comedian instead. So they died of shame.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.

Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

Don't freight your answers with any notions of what you're "supposed" to do, and just see where your feelings point you. It can feel weird to be so formal about it, but if you're not used to doing it, then there's no shame in retraining yourself.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

Did you love Melanie?" asked Adam unexpectedly. There was no pause before I shook my head. "That's a shame," said Adam. "Why?" "Well, someone as special as your daughter should've been... made with love.

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

Empathy is the antidote to shame.

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic hope that this time the fear will be put to shame and a modest 10 percent frail awareness of the possibility of love. I don't fall in love any more. Just like I don't get the mumps.

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

Fool witch once, shame on you. Fool witch twice, oozing sores and an eternal rash in private areas.

For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he doth account me too.

For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.

For a nation to be known as warrior is a shame! For a nation to be known as peaceful is an honour! Violence brings shame, killing brings disgrace; peacefulness brings honour, nonviolence brings esteem!

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Gary Shaw says a lot of things without engaging his brain sometimes and it's a great shame, because he's not a bad chap actually.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.

Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.

Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.

I believe, Eragon, that you are full of love and that you are looking for one who will reciprocate your affection. No shame exists in that.

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

Her smile put the sunflower to shame.

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

I feel no shame at being found still owning a share when the bottom of the market comes…I would go much further than that. I should say that it is from time to time the duty of a serious investor to accept the depreciation of his holdings with equanimity and without reproaching himself.  … An investor…should be aiming primarily at long-period results, and should be solely judged by these.

I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no longer feel shame.

I feel non-stop Brit shame!

I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment.

I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.