Quotes
Quotes about Shame
A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
Less shame a greater fault would palliate. [Lat., Maggior difetto men vergogna lava.]
Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is--to die.
If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought. [Lat., Nae simul pudere quod non oportet coeperit; quod oportet non pudebit.]
The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. [Lat., Pessimus quidem pudor vel est parsimoniae vel frugalitatis.]
I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and that they can not be repelled. [Lat., Pudet haec opprobria nobis Et dici potuisse et non potuisse repelli.]
Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails.
I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]
O shame, where is thy blush?
Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame Sits mocking in our plumes.
He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit; For 'tis a throne where honor may be crowned Sole monarch of the universal earth.
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
Common sense hides shame.
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me rightâshame on you!
