Shame Quotes
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To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.
Kano Jigoro
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Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.
Neil Diamond
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Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.
Sophocles
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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
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Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Lovely place, shame about the people!
Stuart Wilde
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Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.
Karl Ove Knausgard
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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It's a damn shame when people can't take you seriously because girls like you.
Tyson Jay Ritter
The All-American Rejects
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When I was a child, for a public/civil servant to be caught in corrupt practices, that individual will be a pariah. He will be a complete reject of the society; he/she could not raise his or her voice to speak in the public. So what happened between that time and now? That time when a public officer, prison or customs officer caught in corruption hides his face in shame amongst his peers, he just couldn't come out publicly. Today, when they come back, they get chieftaincy titles, they are received in grand style, cows are killed, they ride on white horses.
Wole Soyinka
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I wish to remain nameless
And live without shame
'Cause what's in a name, Oh
I still remain the same
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I could just cry. It's just a nightmare, a shame.
Ann Miller
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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
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
Seneca the Younger
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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
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You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.
Euripides
