Shame Quotes

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Robin G. Collingwood

False shame only is harmful

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

BLAKE EDWARDS

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Charles Dickens

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,-nothing so expensive as glory.

Sydney Smith

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Seneca

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

Milan Kundera

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

Jonathan Swift

Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages

Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.

Chinese Proverb

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Adam Duritz

Deficiency will result in shame and sorrow but caution and foresight will bring peace and security.

Ali bin Abu-Talib

If you still have to ask, shame on you.

Louis Armstrong

Its a shame, she had me convinced that she couldve been a dime. I guess I lost another one to the wintertime.

Drake

Oh, what a shame What a rainy ending given to a perfect day Just walk away Ain't no use defending words that you will never say And now that I'm sitting here thinking of you I've never been anywhere cold as you

Taylor Swift

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