Quotessence
Home / Topics / Shame Quotes

Shame Quotes

Browse 2566 quotes about Shame.

Related topics

IfsPeopleMenThinkingFeelsGuiltKnowsWayShouldWantWorldAshamedHumansNeedsSelfFeelingsTryingHeartPersonsGivingMadeDoeMayKindNamesLittlesPainRealFirstsLongPrideStillsHas BeensSaidWould BeEndsMeanEnoughSinCountryLooksYearsGloryMindBodyChildrenDoneReasonWellsEyeSoulBelieveFacesWarCausesLyingSufferingWritingMatterEmotionHandsHardMomentsPastSometimesYoungDiesFactsFeltI CanJoyTwoAbleUsedVirtueAsksBlameHateLostMightSecretShowsUseChristianHelpingKnowingGirlGuiltyHumiliationLightMistakeSorrowChristDesireFightingMovingRegretStoriesStrongArtmore

Shame Quotes

“There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”

KnowsHumorFunnyStupidFoolRepublicanHumorousShameConservativeFoolishSillyDumbTexasFoolishnessFooledBushismTennesseeOld SayingStupidestFunny BushDumb LiberalFools And FoolishnessStupid RepublicanStupid CelebrityI Was StupidStupidest CelebrityStupid ConservativeDumbest CelebrityFool MeShame On YouShame On MeFool Me Once
Author:George W. Bush
Create image

“She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.”

MadeTwoBookDifferentSoulHomeEarthFacesFatherGivenSecretGrowingTreeBrotherFlowerShameLibraryBitterDrunkBrownDifferent ThingsBowlsYardsQuarrelsWeepingStumblingKatieFingerprintsGiven Life
Book:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Create image

“We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.”

DoneRememberLyingLeftDarkRegretProudShadowShameTablesGuiltCreditStormNakedDustJustifyThickCorpsesUndoneForgetfulnessProsecutorJackalsAnubis
Author:Neil Gaiman
Create image

“Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.”

IfsMenSometimesWould BeSimpleSecretQualityRegretHeroWorshipStandardsShameEnvySatisfiedAdmireHero WorshipGreat Qualities
Author:Mark Twain
Create image

“Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?”

ThinkingKnowsFeelsNightSleepSecretWonderBedShameRagePartnersIntimateMakeupClimbingOverwhelmedWithout Makeup
Author:Bell Hooks
Create image

“Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.”

DreamPainPastNightBlackBehindsClearBearsOceanShameSlaveLeavingTerrorWideAncestorRootedTidesHutsSwellingDaybreak
Author:Maya Angelou
Create image

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.”

IfsShouldBelieveArtIdeasDifferentWarStoriesJoyLiteratureAbilityRevolutionWeaponsShameStrategyLaysNotionRefuseVersionsSellingCorporateEmpiresCollapseSheerOxygenBrillianceMockInevitabilityStubbornnessBrainwashedSiege
Book:War Talk
Create image

“She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.”

MenSoulBodyTurnsOpportunityFireSeriousReadyThousandSixShameDinnerTongueClockKneesShallowTopicsTwistedConsumedDepartedBaffledTrivialitySerious ThingsBurnt Out
Author:Aleister Crowley
Create image

“You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs―the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limbs, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate―the little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.”

ChildrenLittlesArtistOrderTearsCreaturesDespairInfiniteHotShameFantasticFlamesPoisonDemonUnconsciousSubtleMelancholyBubblesTendernessLimbsOutlinesSpineMadmenIneffableCringeFelineVoluptuousCheekbones
Book:The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
Create image

“Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While shadows like to thee do mock my sight? Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee So far from home into my deeds to pry, To find out shames and idle hours in me, The scope and tenor of thy jealousy? O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great: It is my love that keeps mine eye awake: Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake: For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.”

LoveShouldPlayHomeEyeAgeSpiritDesireNightHoursWatchesMinesBrokenShadowSightShameSakeDefeatDeedsHeavyTheeAwakeElsewhereIdleWearyScopeMockSlumberEyelidsTenors
Book:The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].
Create image

“Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually! Oh, Margaret, Margaret! Mother, how you have tortured me! Oh! Margaret, could you not have loved me? I am but uncouth and hard, but I would never have led you into any falsehood for me.”

LooksHardLightLyingMotherRoomsTerribleShameBackgroundsTeethClassicFalsehoodCursedUncouth
Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
Create image

“And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.”

WorldNeedsHandsPainDarkPleasureShameRaisedLuxuryThrownCrownsThronesPitsPromptsCaressPain And PleasureDoingsBewildered
Book:Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
Create image

“We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility.”

MenFeelsHumansMadeStillsImportantWarRealSelfEyeDangerProduceHumilityProudShamePatientVicesLovelyGenuineRepentancePermitCowardiceSelf KnowledgeCalamityEarthquakesUndoneLoathingSelf LoathingReal SelfHuman Eyes
Author:C. S. Lewis
Create image