Best shame & scorn Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.”

Men Feels Self Pain Faces Bears Mark Shame Pity Scorn Disgrace Disdain Blushing Bashful

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.”

Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears, Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears: Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe, With impious scorn insult our solemn woe.”

Should Earth Lying Dies Fall Tears Proud Sorrow Fame Mountain Ears Shame Tales Warrior Aliens Dumb Fallen Insult Woe Foe Scorn Solemn Bleeding Hush Heathen Haughty

Author:William Somervile

“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

“My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns;Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals;The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls.”

Men Soul Justice Love Is Fire Mercy Shame Blow Smoke Fuel Breasts Metals Ashes Coal Sigh Scorn Thorns Furnaces

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men.”

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame.”

Names Shame Cards Chains Folly Reign Virgins Scandal Scorn Slander Hives

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry. To think, without desert of gentle deed And noble worth, to be advanced high, Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed, Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed.”

Source: Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry

“A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.”

Hate Fate Shame Add Dread Scorn

Book:The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius

Source: The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius

“My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign it knocked to pieces a poor, decrepit, bankrupt old state like Spain. To hold such an opinion as that is to abandon all American standards, to put shame and scorn on all that our ancestors tried to build up here, and to go over to the standards of which Spain is a representative.”

Source: War and Other Essays

“Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to gaurd us; and if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognize our innocence, and God waits ony a speration of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward.”

Ifs Men World Earth Pain Spirit Waiting Sides Race Watches Dying Angel Hatred Shame Rewards Flesh Invisible Kingdoms Innocence Torture Crowns Scorn Crushed

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.”

Firsts Winning Animal Results Path Higher Shame Raises Contrary Pursuit Enjoyment Labour Rough Endeavor Approval Scorn Prompts Guarding

Author:Emily Bronte

“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)

“Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame.”

Ifs Men Giving Moments Joy Ability Money Fool Achievement Standards Deserve Shame Greed Investing Vices Stupidity Fraud Despise Reminders Scorn Pennies Tribute Reproach Catering Purchasers

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.”

Humans Pleasure Human Nature Glory Shame Lust Excess Abyss Scorn

Author:Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

“No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.”

Ifs Persons Found Names Drink Hundred Regard Shame Beer Shock Sane Vulgar Scorn Shameful Refinement Humiliating Snob Cider Claret

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Ukitaka kutambulika usione aibu.”

Success Respect Shame Contempt Scorn Mafanikio Heshima Dharau Aibu Be Recognized Tambulika

Author:Enock Maregesi

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