Shame Quotes

Shame is pride's cloak.

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

Frederick Nietzsche

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.

Willard Gaylen

Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.

Carl Whitaker

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde

The guilty catch themselves

Proverb

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows

Samuel Butler

Share whatever it is you're ashamed about. You may think you can hide your shame by not talking about it, but in reality, it's your shame that's hiding you.

Adam Appleson

Where shame is, there is also fear.

John Milton

The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.

Sydney Smith

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Benjamin Franklin

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Aristotle

Shame is worse than death.