Shame Quotes

• The God who had thrust him through in the darkness with probings of dread and shame was the same God who now held out the sword and shield.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • God
  • Darkness
  • Shield

• When I was asked: "Will shame do it?" Meaning: Will welfare people be shamed into getting respectable work? And I said that shame plays the biggest role there is: The biggest shame is that there is so much abundance around but that so many have so little and so few have so much. That's the shame.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • People
  • Shame
  • Abundance

• If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Goal
  • Shame
  • Rate

• We feel bad from a team standpoint for Todd. He worked very hard this offseason. He was having a heck of a camp, and its a shame this happened.

  

  Andy Reid
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Hard

• How many rappers in the game have "little" in front of their name? Lil' Wayne, Lil' Boosie it's a lil' shame Lil' Flip, Lil' Cease, yo they not the same Lil' Wyte, Lil' Mama, where Lil' Zane? Little Brother, Lil' Jon, and Lil' Fame Real hip hop, not about your lil' chain Lil' Keke, Lil' Kim a lil' freaky Lil' Fizz, Illegal with Lil' Maliky Lil' Mo, Lil' Bow Wow had beef with Lil' Romeo A lil' teenager told me so.

  

  Edward Anderson
  • Game
  • Name
  • Hip Hop

• If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Kill
  • Autobiography
  • Self-destruction

• With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

  

  George Eliot
  • History
  • Memory
  • Wound

• Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Suspicion

• It is not easy to wash off the shame when it has already been glued to a person.

  

  Aleksis Kivi
  • Shame
  • Wash
  • Glued

• [W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Shame
  • Murder
  • Torture

• The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Hand
  • Sin
  • Crime

• According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Life
  • Competition
  • Standards

• One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Honest
  • Shame
  • Vanity

• As the adage goes, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me'... It's time for patriots everywhere to rally together again and take back America.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Time
  • America
  • Together

• It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.

  

  Barbara Cameron
  • Chance
  • Grandmother
  • Manners

• When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.

  

  Epictetus
  • Shame
  • Engage
  • Current Situation

• There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Found
  • Shame
  • Cover

• Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Faults
  • Cunning

• Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Love
  • Chances

• Hence I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand circle amid the rest of the planets in an annual revolution around the sun. Near the sun is the center of the universe. Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Earth
  • Planets
  • Motion

• Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Guilty
  • Guilt

• When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Enemy
  • Shame
  • Injustice

• Grace gives us the power to live, and mercy keeps us free from guilt, condemnation, and shame.

  

  John Bevere
  • Giving
  • Grace
  • Guilt

• 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.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Humans
  • Virtue
  • Restraint

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