| 38 Shame Quotes
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“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 Quotes |
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“The guilty catch themselves”
Proverb Quotes |
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“Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.”
Lao Tzu Quotes |
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“Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages”
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Quotes |
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“Shame is pride's cloak.”
William Blake Quotes |
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“Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.”
Dorothy Parker Quotes |
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“The only shame is to have none”
Blaise Pascal Quotes |
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“Doubt is the brother of shame.”
Ugo Betti Quotes |
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“Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.”
Unknown Quotes |
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“Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.”
Unknown Quotes |
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“A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.”
Robert Burton Quotes 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.]”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes 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.”
John Dryden Quotes 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.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. XXIV)
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“If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes 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.]”
Titus Livy Quotes 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.]”
Titus Livy Quotes 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.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes 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.”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes 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.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes Source: Bacchides (III, 3, 80)
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“O shame, where is thy blush?”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes Source: Man and Superman (act I)
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