Best 857 quotes in «shame quotes» category

Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil.

Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.

Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

Tell troth and shame the devil.

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know.

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.

That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame.

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

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.

There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

There are so many more productive things to do than sit around feeling shame and guilt. Beyond touching on shame and guilt in a perfunctory manner, I wouldn't bother with that at all.

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

There's an obsessive quality to it that I thought I would've grown out of by now. It's an ongoing source of shame for me.

There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.

There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life.

The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.

This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

This country lacks the backbone and the spine and the will to demand fair trade and stand up for our products. If our producers can't compete, shame on us. Then we lose. But requiring our producers to compete when the game is rigged, saying our producers ought to compete, when foreign markets are closed to us, is fundamentally wrong.

The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.