Best shame & eye Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face”

Firsts Eye Faces Secret Shame Guilt Tenderness Veils Infancy Pierce

Book:The fate of Capua. The Spartan dame. Money the mistress. A letter from the Earl of Orrey to Thomas Southerne

Source: The fate of Capua. The Spartan dame. Money the mistress. A letter from the Earl of Orrey to Thomas Southerne

“Golden Verses So-called because they are "good as gold." They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but always go under the name of Pythagoras, and seem quite in accordance with the excellent precepts of that philosopher. They are as follows: Ne'er suffer sleep thine eyes to close Before thy mind hath run O'er every act, and thought, and word, From dawn to set of sun; For wrong take shame, but grateful feel If just thy course hath been; Such effort day by day renewed Will ward thy soul from sin. E. C. B.”

Ifs Feels Mind Soul Seems Eye Running Suffering Courses Names Sleep Sin Effort Sun Gold Shame Grateful Philosopher Golden Excellent Dawn Verses Thoughts And Words

Author:Pythagoras

“For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.”

Eye Knowing Pure Bed Shame Glances Maidens

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)

“Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame.”

Mean Eye Sex Fronts Pride Approach Shots Shame Sacred Revenge Generous Charm Contempt Scorn Maids Destroyers Muster

Author:John Armstrong

“We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.”

Ifs Men World Years Hands Light Eye America Hope Fate Shame Golden Dust Resolve Trails Disgrace

Book:The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.”

Men Heart Hands Eye Hate Fall Pride Weak Shame Blind Legs Easter Blindness Lame Love Is Blind Weak Man Hearts And Hands

Author:Ben Harper

“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!”

Humans Art Eye Grace Human Nature Shame Thee Decent Modesty Veils Statues Thyself Wraps Marble Offence

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“What will you do when the Law of God comes in terror; when the trumpet of the archangel shall tear you from your grave; when the eyes of God shall burn their way into your guilty soul; when the great books shall be opened and all your sin and shame shall be punished... can you stand against an angry Law in that Day?”

Way Book Soul Eye Law Sin Tears Shame Angry Terror Graves Guilty Trumpets Great Book Archangel

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426

“The wise man does nothing but what can be done openly and without falseness, nor does he do anything whereby he may involve himself in any wrong-doing, even where he may escape notice. For he is guilty in his own eyes before being so in the eyes of others; and the publicity of his crime does not bring him more shame than his own consciousness of it.”

Men May Doe Done Eye Consciousness Wise Crime Shame Guilty Publicity Falseness

Book:The Sacred Writings of Saint Ambrose (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Sacred Writings of Saint Ambrose (Annotated Edition)

“Women are using makeup to make their eyes look puffy, their noses look red, and instead of going to the gym, they start their day with a brisk walk of shame.”

Looks Eye Walks Red Shame Noses Makeup Gym

Author:Peter Sagal

“Goose pimples rose all over me, my hair stood on end, my eyes filled with tears of love and gratitude for this greatest of all conquerors of human misery and shame, and my breath came in little gasps. If I had not known that the Leader would have scorned such adulation, I might have fallen to my knees in unashamed worship, but instead I drew myself to attention, raised my arm in the eternal salute of the ancient Roman Legions and repeated the holy words, "Heil Hitler!"”

“Be ever more convinced that your guardian angel is really present, that he is ever at your side. St. Frances of Rome always saw him standing before her, his arms clasped at his breast, his eyes uplifted to Heaven; but at the slightest failing, he would cover his face as if in shame, and at times, turn his back to her.”

Ifs Eye Faces Turns Heaven Sides Saws Failing Arms Angel Standing Shame Convinced France His Eyes Breasts Rome Guardian Your Side Guardian Angel

Author:John Bosco

“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.”

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

“I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.”

Stills Eye Shame Ashamed

Book:The Journey (Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Book 2)

Source: The Journey (Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Book 2)

“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.”

“I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off.”

Said Hands Eye Lasts Shame Cards Thanks Bags Canvas Sunflower Her Smile Gaudy Stargirl

Book:The Stargirl Collection

Source: The Stargirl Collection

“We're, ah, taking a break to evaluate things, and, um, reexamine our relationship, so I stuffed him in a closet!" I burst out in shame. Timmie's eyes goggled. Is he still there?”

Stills Eye Break Shame Our Relationship Closets Halfway Evaluate Taking A Break

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.”

People Feels Humans Real Moments Might Eye Together Young Girl Fear Human Beings Animal Emotion Groups Shame Threat Remembered Insecurity Replaced Constraints Earthquakes Shyness

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.”

Giving May Eye Spirit Enemy Sun Clear Doubt Strength Give Me Shame Defeat Setting Settings Fades Give Me Strength Cherokee Clear Eyes

Author:P. C. Cast

“I’m sick of being everyone’s regret. My mother died in shame because she’d borne me. My father and brother despise me and my sister can barely look me in the eye! (Acheron)”

Looks Eye Mother Father Brother Regret Sick Died Shame My Sister Despise Mother Died Father And Brother Look Me In The Eye

Book:Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

“The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.”

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“I can still see her face -- The sorrow in her eyes, her voice, as she condemns me. I didn't know it was possible to feel such shame. To feel so sick at heart. I'm lost inside, my soul -- all that I thought I was, and am, and ever will be -- shattered, cast to the winds. Compared to this, death is a mercy.”

Knows Feels Heart Stills I Can Soul Eye Faces Lost Voice Wind Sorrow Mercy Sick Shame Casts My Soul Her Eyes Shattered So Sick

Author:Chris Claremont

“Sure you can manage that broom, Potter?" said a cold, drawling voice. Draco Malfoy had arrived for a closer look, Crabbe and Goyle right behind him. "Yeah, reckon so," said Harry casually. "Got plenty of special features, hasn't it?" said Malfoy, eyes glittering maliciously. "Shame it doesn't come with a parachute - in case you get too near a Dementor." Crabbe and Goyle sniggered. "Pity you can't attach an extra arm to yours, Malfoy," said Harry. "Then it could catch the Snitch for you.”

Looks Said Eye Voice Behinds Cases Special Arms Cold Shame Yeah Pity Manage Plenty Features Extras Mentor Harry Potter Potters Parachutes Brooms Malfoy Draco Draco Malfoy Dementors Snitch

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love with. " "What a shame to love only once," she said, showing her white teeth in a wicked smile. "I've heard some men can manage twice or even more." I ignored her gibe. "I am only a fool once. Never will I love again.”

Men Way Said Helping Eye White Heard Fool Approach Shame Teeth Manage Wicked Ignored Love Again White Teeth

Book:The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

“What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended.”

Heart Littles Hands Eye Left Easy Water White Blood Sea Mines Ocean Red Shame Green Clean Deeds Colour Pluck Constancy Neptune

Author:William Shakespeare

“We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.”

Way War Hard Eye Suffering Steps Poverty Shame Killing Indifference Contempt Execution Riot Disrespect Every Step

Author:Hermann Hesse

“I can see her clearly, standing on the rock beside Peg Gratton, unflinching before Eaton and the rest of the race committee. I can't remember when I've been that brave, and it shames me. The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her; She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of the island that i'm not. It's like when the mare goddess looked into my eye; I felt that there was a part of myself that I didn't know.”

Knows Feels I Can Eye Remember Felt Race Doors Rocks Truth Is Standing Mirrors Shame Brave Islands Fascinated Goddess Committees Remember When Peg Mares

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must be demons. In the isles we know better. Our gods gave us legs to run with, noses to smell with, hands to touch and feel. What mad cruel god would give a man eyes and tell him he must forever keep them shut, and never look at all the beauty in the world? Only a monster god, a demon of the darkness.”

Ifs Knows Men World Giving Feels Looks Hands Eye Running Darkness Forever Shame Mad Seven Legs Smell Monsters Noses Demon Isle

Author:George R. R. Martin

“We've got a nation of people who have one eye looking out for the next speed camera, another looking for a speed limit sign and another looking at the speedometer - which is a bit of a shame, when you only have two eyes.”

People Two Eye Next Nations Bits Limits Shame Cameras Speed Clever Speed Limits Eyes Looking

Author:Paul Smith

“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.”

Eye Faces Night Sin Behinds Poverty Morning Despair Shame Misery Hungry Creeps Lanes Hungry Eyes

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.”

Heart Eye Earth Remember Darkness Shame Fingers Lips Enormous Folly Touching Scorn Mockery Caverns

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

“They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.”

Eye Lying Imagine Shame Blame Guilt Bosoms

Book:The Poetical Works of Shakespeare. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait].

Source: The Poetical Works of Shakespeare. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait].

“I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone.”

Ifs Thinking Way Eye Support Rights Gay Equal Shame Good Times Grandchildren Equal Rights Gay Marriage Anticipate Bans Marriage Equality Against Gay Marriage

Author:Sean Penn

“Devil does not bring sinners to Hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. He thus leads them to eternal perdition. Before we fall into sin, the enemy labours to blind us, that we may not see the evil we do, and the ruin we bring upon ourselves by offending God. After we commit sin, he seeks to make us dumb, that, through shame, we may conceal our guilt in confession.”

Firsts May Doe Eye Fall Evil Sin Enemy Hell Devil Shame Blind Guilt Commit Ruins Dumb Labour Sinner Confession Malice Offending

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some grey pink with the large, round surprised eyes of all fish, in which we humans cannot read any expression of pain or suffering, so that, as with insects or mollusks, we feel absolved of their deaths.”

Feels Humans Eye Pain Suffering Easy Taken Expression Shame Guilt Rounds Fishes Enormous Golden Yellow Grey Insects Bait Nile Lethargic Mollusks

Author:Kuki Gallmann

“Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for joy, nor early death for sorrow. Success is not for him to be pround of, failure is no shame. Had he all the world's power he would not hold it as his own. If he conquered everything he would not take it to himself. His glory is in knowing that all things come together in One and life and death are equal.”

Ifs World Life Long Eye Together Life Is Joy Wealth Knowing Failure Honor Sorrow Equal Glory Gains All Things Shame Possession His Eyes Life And Death Goods Long Life Early Death

Author:Zhuangzi

“Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!”

Life Eye Sun Failing Morality Eternal Essence Eternity Shame Shining Equality Worthy Significance Animal Rights Living Things Inscrutable Vivisection Pariahs Eyes That See

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it's simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life. It's a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.”

People Ifs Believe Doe Country Would Be Eye Used Cities Modern Couple Shame Filled Atmosphere Obsessed Penetrate Modern Life Oklahoma Looking Down Unwelcome Life Living Living In The City

Author:Adam Duritz

“Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!”

“What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of Molière, or the ingenious stage mechanisms of Pixérécourt? Or was it simply the opportunity to cast an eye, without shame, upon the living, unclad human form?”

Thinking Humans Eye Form Culture Opportunity Stage Shame Court Casts Attraction Wit Mechanism Mainstream Ghetto Ingenious Human Form

Author:Ben Katchor

“If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness; Or, if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth; Muffle your false love with some show of blindness; Let not my sister read it in your eye; Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator; Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty; Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger; Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted; Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint; Be secret-false.”

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Dramatic and Poetic

“O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes”

Men Heart May Eye Fighting Strong Sports Shame Warrior Heat Be A Man

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.”

Eye Names Known Glory Increase Shame Mortals

Author:Jean Racine

“Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.”

Men Should War Country Eye Peace Enemy Wise Nice Shame Being Wise Enchanted Sweetheart

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status.”

Heart Eye Achieve Pride Involved Losing Importance Shame Inferiors Superiority Humiliation Rating Estimation

Author:Laozi

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