Shame Quotes
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
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
Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.
Carl Whitaker
Where shame is, there is also fear.
John Milton
The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.
Sydney Smith
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
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
John Lyly
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
If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
Chinese Proverb
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
Charles Dickens
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,-nothing so expensive as glory.
Sydney Smith
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
