Quotes with shame

Quotes 41 till 60 of 82.

  • Eliza Farnham 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.
    Eliza Farnham
    American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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  • Laurence Sterne Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Jacob Bronowski Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Billy Graham Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Samuel Johnson Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Blake Edwards Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
    Blake Edwards
    American filmmaker (1922 - 2010)
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  • Brene Brown Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Seneca Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Carl Sandburg Tell him to be a fool every so often
    and to have no shame over having been a fool
    yet learning something over every folly.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • François Rabelais Tell the truth and shame the devil.
    François Rabelais
    French writer (1483 - 1553)
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  • Caitlin Stasey The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
    Caitlin Stasey
    Australian actress (1990 - )
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  • Milan Kundera 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
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Oscar Wilde The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Anacharsis The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
    Anacharsis
    Scythian philosopher
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  • Cat Stevens The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • William Hazlitt The public have neither shame or gratitude.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Thomas Hobbes The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • William Blake Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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