To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
~By Algernon Charles Swinburne ~
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.
~By Jude Law ~
Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.
~By David Axelrod ~
I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
~By Tertullian ~
At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
~By Barbara Ehrenreich ~
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.
~By Robert Towne ~
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
~By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
~By Tenzing Norgay ~
Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.
~By Charles Barkley ~
I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame.
~By Thom Yorke ~
It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.
~By Sue Johanson ~
If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful.
~By Judy Collins ~
People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?
~By Robert Wyatt ~
After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.
~By Terry Brooks ~
I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.
~By Matt Cameron ~
And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
~By Warren Beatty ~
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
~By Fred Woodworth ~
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
~By John Updike ~
It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.
~By Gary Kemp ~
I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.
~By Otto Hahn ~
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
~By Paul Klee ~
The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.
~By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
~By John Leonard ~
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
~By Eliza Farnham ~
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
~By Johannes Kepler ~
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.
~By Michael C. Hall ~
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
~By Edward F. Halifax ~
When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?
~By Glenn Beck ~
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
~By Robertson Davies ~
Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
~By Solomon Schechter ~
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
~By Thomas de Quincey ~
The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.
~By Doc Hastings ~
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
~By Edgar Rice Burroghs ~
You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine.
~By Billy Mays ~
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
~By John Owen ~
I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.
~By Christine McVie ~
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
~By Mike Pence ~
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.
~By Sylvia Kristel ~
When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.
~By Brooke Shields ~
There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.
~By Mike Figgis ~
It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
~By Bill Pascrell ~
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
~By William Cowper ~
We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down fighting. Hopefully people back home remember that we got this far. We've got nothing to be ashamed about.
~By John Atkinson ~
Shame, shame, shame. How many times have I told you not to be frightened? Have I not told you God looks after all his children?
~By Willis Goldbeck ~
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
~By Earl Wilson ~
The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
~By Rainer W. Fassbinder ~
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
~By Mary Wortley ~
It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
~By William Faulkner ~
Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
~By Douglas Hyde ~
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
~By Confucius ~
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
~By A. E. Housman ~
It's kind of a shame that it's even an issue. Not being gay, I can't fully appreciate how complicated that is. In the article, the interviewer asked me, and I said that if I were, I would just say it.
~By Scott Wolf ~
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.
~By Chrissie Hynde ~
You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.
~By Whoopi Goldberg ~
The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.
~By Michael M. Honda ~
I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.
~By Martin McGuinness ~
There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
~By Pat Summerall ~
I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.
~By Randy Harrison ~
I gave up shame a long time ago.
~By John Lithgow ~
Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
~By William Gurnall ~
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
The only shame is to have none.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.
~By Kyan Douglas ~
Doubt is the brother of shame.
~By Erik Erikson ~
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
~By Confucius ~
I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.
~By Christopher Gadsden ~
It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
~By Marc Almond ~
I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.
~By Sara Gilbert ~
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
~By Fanny Burney ~
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that.
~By Roma Downey ~
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
~By Sydney Smith ~
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.
~By Peter Tork ~
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
~By Brenda Ueland ~
And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
~By Peter Tosh ~
It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.
~By Ryne Sandberg ~
And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
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