Quotes with shame

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  • Alexander Pope Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Louis Armstrong I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you!
    Louis Armstrong
    American trumpeter, composer and singer (1901 - 1971)
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  • Brooke Shields 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.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Aeschylus If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Edward F. Halifax Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Blaise Pascal Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Gilbert Adair In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.''
    Gilbert Adair
    Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. (1944 - 2011)
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  • Luigi Pirandello It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Sydney Smith 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.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Ben Harper It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.
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  • Brene Brown Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Brene Brown My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • William Shakespeare O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John Wesley Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
    John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
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  • George Sand Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Louis Kronenberger One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.
    Louis Kronenberger
    American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
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