Home / Topics / Shame Quotes

Shame Quotes

Browse 2566 quotes about Shame.

Shame Quotes

“But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.”

May Running Reading Sides Path Depends Concern Shame Shining Misery

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“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

“If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.”

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace, And copies Ovid's filth without his grace. In his rough brain a genius might have grown, Had he not sought to play the brute alone; But void of shame, he let his wit run wild, And liv'd and wrote as Adam's bestial child.”

Children Soul Play Might Running Lines Brain Grace Genius Shame Delight Wit Fancy Rough Copies Pace Adam Void Brutes Fever Filth Swine Rakes

Book:The Conservative

Source: The Conservative

“It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.”

Source: 55 Men, Story of Constitution

“The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.”

Men Ideas Light Running Secret Holy All Things Shame Blame Clean Graves Cleaning Obscene Profane Secret Thoughts

Book:Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

Source: Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

“The only crying shame about it is, when good things happen to you, you run short of time. It takes the same amount of time, however, to tell people, 'It's good to see you again. I'm sorry we only have a minute to talk,' as it does to say, 'I don't have time to talk with you' period.”

People Doe Happens Running Minutes Cry Amount Periods Shame Good Things Sorry Things Happen I'm Sorry You Again

Author:Barbara Mandrell

“The outsider hero is hero riding into town, he's the gunslinger, shame - the same thing, he didn't want to do it anymore, he wanted to live a different life but part of who you are sort of haunts you and you can't run away from evil and if you have special skills, and most people are mistreated, which is unfortunately in our world, we always need an equalizer, that type of character to come to our rescue.”

“The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.”

Children Home Running School Streets Safe Shame Dare Practicals Tolerate Safe Places

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the war. And that's what we set out to do. What was not ended by the anti-war movement was ended by the Vietnamese. That's our shame.”

May Long War Ends Running Streets Movement Tears Shame Gas Throwing Anti War Hippie Vietnamese Anti War Movement

Author:Bill Ayers

“It's a shame cars don't run on cognitive dissonance.”

Running Car Shame Cognitive Dissonance Cognitive Dissonance

Author:Lewis Black

“I had a lot of guilt and shame when I was running from God, but nothing like when I was running for God. I was always looking for God's approval, and that's where the guilt and shame came out in a big way.”

Way Bigs Running Shame Guilt Approval

Author:Jud Wilhite

“I don't understand the art of compromise, and it's a shame the politicians don't understand that as well, you know, we might have a better, clearer world. But then saying that, we might also get a lot of Donald Trump's running left right and centre.”

Knows World Wells Art Might Running Left Trump Politician Shame Compromise Centre

Author:John Lydon

“You look worldwide for the great leaders, and they're pretty thin on the ground, and of course the problem is unless you're squeaky, squeaky clean, something is going to come out of the cupboard. Most people aren't squeaky clean. Most people have fallen by the wayside once or twice in their lives, and because the world is so transparent now, I think they're very fearful of running for office. It's a huge shame, because often people who have really lived and are amazing people can be brought down by a past indiscretion.”

People Thinking World Problem Running Past Leader Office Shame Fallen Fearful Great Leader Amazing People

Author:Jeremy Irons

“It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.”

World Running Shame Oil

Book:War Dances

Source: War Dances

“I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.”

Ifs Feels Home Running Pain Broken Shame Tales Running Away Apologizing Broken Homes

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“But all I feel is impatience, fury for the opposition I anticipate and the lies I'm going to have to tell to make it happen, and frustration that I can't even take a walk without them sending someone to hover. Attack me," she said. "I beg your pardon, Lady Queen?" "You should attack me, and we'll see what he does. He's probably quite bored--it'll be a relief to him." "Mightn't he run me through with his sword?" "Oh." Bitterblue chuckled. "Yes, I suppose he might. That would be a shame." "I'm gratified that you think so," said Giddon dryly.”

Thinking Feels Should Doe Said I Can Might Happens Would Be Running Lying Walks Shame Bored Queens Relief Opposition Frustration Fury Pardon Impatience Anticipate Make It Happen

Book:Bitterblue

Source: Bitterblue

“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

“When I was fifteen, I remember my mum taking me to the posh clothes shop on London Road to get my first grown-up coat. It was royal-blue and very adult, and I thought, Gosh, this is great! But when my mum said to the assistant, "What's the lowest price you'll take for this?" I nearly died of shame, and wanted to run away.”

Firsts Said Running Wanted Remember Clothes Adults Died Shame Blue Guilt London Shops Running Away Mum Fifteen Coats Lowest Royal Assistants Posh Royal Blue

Author:Cilla Black

“My fellow players are sometimes occupying the spaces I want to play in. That forces me to adjust my runs, based on the position of my fellow players. Unfortunately, they're often playing in my zones. I think that's a shame”

Thinking Want Sometimes Play Running Force Space Player Position Football Shame Fellows League Zone

Author:Robin van Persie

“I ate too much and masturbated too recently, you know? It's bad to like jerk off and run out the door, 'cause you run into somebody. "Oh, she knows..." You got to take some time alone to process the shame.”

Thinking Knows Running Causes Process Laughing Too Much Doors Shame Jerk Me Alone Alone Time

Author:Louis C. K.

“As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad.”

Matter Play Facts Running Lying Fear Violence Sacrifice Cry Identity Arms Cold Shame Down And Glad Teenager Engaged Coward Exposure Brooklyn Quentin Physical Violence

Book:The Magicians: A Novel

Source: The Magicians: A Novel