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Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.
Author:
Source: None
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A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsec. 6)
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Less shame a greater fault would palliate.
[Lat., Maggior difetto men vergogna lava.]
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Inferno (XXX, 142)
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Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 133)
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The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom, is--to die.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. XXIV)
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If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. VI, l. 350), (Pope's translation)
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As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought
not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.
[Lat., Nae simul pudere quod non oportet coeperit; quod oportet
non pudebit.]
Author: Titus Livy
Source: Annales (XXXIV, 4)
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The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
[Lat., Pessimus quidem pudor vel est parsimoniae vel
frugalitatis.]
Author: Titus Livy
Source: Annales (XXXIV, 4)
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I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and
that they can not be repelled.
[Lat., Pudet haec opprobria nobis
Et dici potuisse et non potuisse repelli.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Metamorphoses (bk. I, 758)
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Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails,
And each by turns his aching heart assails.
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Metamorphoses (bk. III, Transformation of Actoeon, l. 73), (Addison's translation)
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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
[Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Bacchides (III, 3, 80)
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O shame, where is thy blush?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
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Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all!
Reproach and everlasting shame
Sits mocking in our plumes.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Dauphin at IV, v)
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He was not born to shame.
Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;
For 'tis a throne where honor may be crowned
Sole monarch of the universal earth.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at III, ii)
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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything
that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of
our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience,
just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Man and Superman (act I)
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The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.
Author: Sydney Smith
Source: Lecture on the Evil Affections
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Source: None
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Author: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Source: None
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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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.
Author: Willard Gaylen
Source: None
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Common sense hides shame.
Author: Gaelic Proverb
Source: None
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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
Author: John Lyly
Source: None
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Author: Seneca
Source: None
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I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!
Author: Louis Armstrong
Source: None
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: None
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If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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