Shame Quotes
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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
Sigmund Freud -
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
Oscar Wilde -
Be strong, know who you are, no be shame, stand up, e ala e.
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole -
And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame.
Oscar Wilde -
A lot of people tell me now I'm their inspiration. They say, 'I don't play baseball,' and then they mention whatever - engineer, doctor, college student, high school student - but they're hurt because, for some reason, people feel shame about themselves or embarrassed because they are short or skinny or fat or whatever.
Jose Altuve -
Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.
Xavier Becerra -
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Randall Terry
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They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.
William Shakespeare -
When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
Malcolm X -
I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
Imre Kertesz -
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
Aristotle -
There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
Rachel Cusk -
It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
Marc Almond Soft Cell
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I can't believe it hasn't happened yet. It's a shame and it's disappointing. I don't know what the problem is.
Gary Sheffield -
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
Owen Hart -
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
Sam Mendes -
I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.
Saddam Hussein
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.
Carey Mulligan